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.
AIMEE BENDERWhen language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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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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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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