It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
AIMEE BENDERLarge meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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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 knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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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 watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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