It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
AIMEE BENDERI am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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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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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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