And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
AIMEE BENDERBut the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
-
-
I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
AIMEE BENDER -
I want to be violated by insight.
AIMEE BENDER -
It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
AIMEE BENDER -
Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
AIMEE BENDER -
As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
AIMEE BENDER -
It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
AIMEE BENDER -
Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
AIMEE BENDER -
You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
AIMEE BENDER -
Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
AIMEE BENDER -
There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
AIMEE BENDER -
I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
AIMEE BENDER -
Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
AIMEE BENDER -
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
AIMEE BENDER -
While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
AIMEE BENDER -
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.
AIMEE BENDER