It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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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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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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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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