If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
AIMEE BENDERWhile she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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