I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
AIMEE BENDERI don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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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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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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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 was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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