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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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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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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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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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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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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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