You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
AIMEE BENDERI was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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 don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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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 want to be violated by insight.
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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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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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