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.
AIMEE BENDERThis is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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