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.
AIMEE BENDERIt is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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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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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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