When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
AIMEE BENDERMy lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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