I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
AIMEE BENDERYou feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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