A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
AIMEE BENDERWith 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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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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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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