But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
AIMEE BENDERI want to be violated by insight.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
-
-
We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
AIMEE BENDER -
It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
AIMEE BENDER -
It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
AIMEE BENDER -
Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
AIMEE BENDER -
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.
AIMEE BENDER -
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
AIMEE BENDER -
I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
AIMEE BENDER -
With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
AIMEE BENDER -
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
AIMEE BENDER -
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
AIMEE BENDER -
I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
AIMEE BENDER -
I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
AIMEE BENDER -
Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
AIMEE BENDER -
We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
AIMEE BENDER -
You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
AIMEE BENDER






