That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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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 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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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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 knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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