That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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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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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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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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