Aimee Bender Quotes, Hands Quotes, World Quotes

We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

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That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. 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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles 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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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

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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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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

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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 felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

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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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Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.

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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... 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. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.

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