My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories) Aimee Bender More Quotes by Aimee Bender More Quotes From Aimee Bender As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake. Aimee Bender awake dream writing I want to be violated by insight. Aimee Bender insight want 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 Bender smart brain heart It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments. Aimee Bender rescue surprising moments Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early. Aimee Bender later-in-life strong kids Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped. Aimee Bender magazines pages mom Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own. Aimee Bender light comfort yellow 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. Aimee Bender childhood cake birthday 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. Aimee Bender wine eye wise That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger. Aimee Bender handmade burgers littles It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things. Aimee Bender best-work pages writing 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. Aimee Bender struggle writing character The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious. Aimee Bender mysterious writing thinking I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope. Aimee Bender unbearable said thinking It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. 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. Aimee Bender sadness loss life 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. Aimee Bender away-from-each-other groups tears Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. Aimee Bender tickets plot character When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating. Aimee Bender feel-good language body 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. Aimee Bender cutting simple moving I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it. Aimee Bender stride space two
