I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
AIMEE BENDERI don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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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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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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