You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
AIMEE BENDERMy genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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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’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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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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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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