My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
AIMEE BENDERThat’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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