Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
AIMEE BENDERMom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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 give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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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.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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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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