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.
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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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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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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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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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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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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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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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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