We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
AIMEE BENDERThe wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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 such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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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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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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