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Willful Creatures
Aimee Bender
Top 10 Best Quotes
“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”
“No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.”
“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.”
“Pain was no longer a mystery to him, and a man familiar with pain has entered a new kind of freedom.”
“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. 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.”
“It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened.”
“Walk soft, like whispers.”
“He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.”
“[...]when he closed his eyes, the torrent of longing waiting inside was so thick he thought he might drown in it.”
“This woman he met was the woman he met and however you try, you cannot unmeet.”
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