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.
AIMEE BENDERPouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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