I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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 felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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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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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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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’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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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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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 seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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