You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
AIMEE BENDERAs soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
-
-
I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
AIMEE BENDER -
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.
AIMEE BENDER -
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.
AIMEE BENDER -
It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
AIMEE BENDER -
Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
AIMEE BENDER -
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
AIMEE BENDER -
With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
AIMEE BENDER -
This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
AIMEE BENDER -
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.
AIMEE BENDER -
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
AIMEE BENDER -
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
AIMEE BENDER -
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 BENDER -
I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
AIMEE BENDER -
The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
AIMEE BENDER -
It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
AIMEE BENDER