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  1. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    He said he hated talking and just wanted to look into my eyes and tell me things that way. I let him and it made my skin lift, the things in his look."
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  2. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    Last day I saw him human, he was sad about the world."
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  3. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    At lunch you order steamed vegetables because you're remembering that you have a heart too. You feel humbled by your heart, it works so hard. You want to thank it. You give your heart a little pat
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  4. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    I asked them: Does it hurt? And the scar people nodded, yes. But it felt somehow wonderful, they said. For one long second, it felt like the world was holding them close."
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  5. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    But truthfully? Let me tell you what I honestly think. I think, maybe he hasn't even noticed that I'm gone. But. I have.
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  6. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    When we sleep together, he holds me like he loves me. I've noticed this: when it's the first date, and you fuck, the guy holds you much better than he does the next few times. The first date, you're sort of a stand-in for whomever he loved last, before he fully realizes you're not her, so you get all this nice residue emotion.
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  7. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    I can't tell you exactly what I'm looking for, but I'll know it when it happens. I want to be breathless and weak, crumpled by the entrance of another person inside my soul. I want to be violated by insight.
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  8. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    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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  9. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.
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  10. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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  11. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    I've noticed this: when it's the first date, and you fuck, the guy hold you much better than he does the next few times. The first date, you're sort of the stand-in for whomever he loved last, before he fully realizes that you're not her, and so you get all this nice residue emotion. I felt cherished, tucked into his belly, like we'd known each other for years and I was his wonderful girl and we both slept great.
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  12. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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