The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
AIMEE BENDERHe 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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