consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt m…

Amy Hempel
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. ✨ Amy Hempel (2006). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.270, Simon and Schuster
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We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive. ✨ Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.60, Simon and Schuster
Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wonder … ▶
Dreams: the place most of us get what we need. ✨ Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.355, Simon and Schuster
The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else. ✨ Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.52 … ▶
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator s … ▶

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. ✨ Amy Hempel (2006). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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