I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
AIMEE BENDERIt is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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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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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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 knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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