Aimee Bender Quotes, Life Quotes, Mother Quotes

I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; 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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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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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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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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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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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

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

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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

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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 want to be violated by insight.

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

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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

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

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

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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

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