That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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.
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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 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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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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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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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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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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