To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
AIMEE BENDERIf 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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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’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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