Aimee Bender Quotes, Rope Quotes, Band Quotes

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, 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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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, 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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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 felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

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There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. 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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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles 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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.

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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

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Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- 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. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.

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