Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
AIMEE BENDERThe 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 what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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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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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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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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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 was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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