"I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen."

-- Aimee Bender

#Life Quotes #Mother Quotes #Baby Quotes

“Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.”

Source : "Ebola Co-Discoverer: 'This Was an Avoidable Catastrophe'" by Peter Piot, time.com. October 1, 2014.
“It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian...”
“You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.”
“Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.”
“I am very picky about my food, and I'm very health oriented, so I always try to cook.”
“Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.”
“The more you have, the more people want to use you and damage you.”
“The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.”

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