Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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 am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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I want to be violated by insight.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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