I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
AIMEE BENDERThe most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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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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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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