Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
AIMEE BENDERKissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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