I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
AIMEE BENDERWhen 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with 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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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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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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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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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