I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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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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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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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 right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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