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.
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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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 was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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 could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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