It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
AIMEE BENDERThe wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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