Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
AIMEE BENDERand 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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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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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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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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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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 was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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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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