I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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 am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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