With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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 was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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