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 BENDERShe 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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