Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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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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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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