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.
AIMEE BENDERListen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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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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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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 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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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