And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
AIMEE BENDERWe hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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