I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
AIMEE BENDERSometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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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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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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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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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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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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