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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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