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

-- Aimee Bender

#Rope Quotes #Band Quotes #Stories Quotes

“It is only through letting our heart break that we discover something unexpected: the heart cannot actually break, it can only break open. When we feel both our love for this world and the pain of this world-together, at the same time-the heart breaks out of its shell. To live with an open heart is to experience life full-strength.”
“Amy hugged Sinead, and Dan scratched Saladin. "Later, Saladin. Take it easy on Kabra. On second thought, don't.”
“A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.”
“One breath at a time. One day at a time. Wake up, and be shredded. Cry for a while. Then stop crying and go about your day. You're not okay, but you're alive, and you will be okay, someday.”
“All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.”
“Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet's green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.”
“Sometimes you have to be your own best friend.”

Source : Perry Moore (2007). “Hero”, Disney-Hyperion
“Any chance heâ€™s turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?â€ â€œAbout as likely as me doing it.â€ Hadrian eyed Royce for a heartbeat. â€œI put him at the top of the list.”

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