Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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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 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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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.
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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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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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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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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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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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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 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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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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