I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
AIMEE BENDERIf everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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 like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy 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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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 with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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