My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
AIMEE BENDERAs 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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 can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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