My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
AIMEE BENDERLarge meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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 don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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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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