To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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