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 BENDERGlen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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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.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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