But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
AIMEE BENDERThat’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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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.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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