A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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 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 what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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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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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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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