And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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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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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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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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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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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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