I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
AIMEE BENDERHe was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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