It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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 knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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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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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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