You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
AIMEE BENDERI didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
-
-
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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 -
It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
AIMEE BENDER -
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.
AIMEE BENDER -
As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
AIMEE BENDER -
I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
AIMEE BENDER -
Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
AIMEE BENDER -
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.
AIMEE BENDER -
It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
AIMEE BENDER -
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.
AIMEE BENDER -
Listen. 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.
AIMEE BENDER -
It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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 -
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.
AIMEE BENDER -
I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
AIMEE BENDER