"Then the children went to bed, or at……" — Amy Hempel
"Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay."
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59 Quotes by Amy Hempel
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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
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We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.
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