Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
AIMEE BENDERWhen language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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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 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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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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