The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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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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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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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