"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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Source : Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor

Aimee Bender

#Wise Quotes #Wine Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.”

Source : Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”
“If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.”
“Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.”
“Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.”

Source : "Practice makes perfect?". "All in the Mind", www.abc.net.au. November 5, 2011.
“I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.”
“There's probably never been a more important time for mayors in America than there is right now in this country, because the people who are being targeted, and the fear that's happening out there, those people live in our cities.”
“So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'”
“God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.”

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