He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
AIMEE BENDERThe most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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