That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
AIMEE BENDERThe writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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 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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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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 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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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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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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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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