Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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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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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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 all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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