That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
AIMEE BENDERThis is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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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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 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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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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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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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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 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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