It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
AIMEE BENDERYou feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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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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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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