It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
AIMEE BENDERWith 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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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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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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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