You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
AIMEE BENDERI didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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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 was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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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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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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