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.
AIMEE BENDERI 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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You 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.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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 was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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