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 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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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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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.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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