Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
AIMEE BENDERTo see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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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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