It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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