My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
AIMEE BENDERYou can ruin anything if you focus at it.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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 peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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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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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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