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.
AIMEE BENDERIt 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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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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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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