Aimee Bender Quotes, Character Quotes, Tickets Quotes

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

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

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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

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

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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 could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

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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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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

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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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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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