Aimee Bender Quotes

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.
AIMEE BENDER

Apartment Building Dark Hand Peer Streetside Window
I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
AIMEE BENDER

Said Think Unbearable
The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
AIMEE BENDER

Mysterious Tent
While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
AIMEE BENDER

Cry Cut Cutting Grave Moving Mushroom Simple
You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
AIMEE BENDER

Expect Nothing Perfect Rub
It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
AIMEE BENDER

Lowest Moment
He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
AIMEE BENDER

Carefully Detail Intimate Leave Part Remnant Ritual
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
AIMEE BENDER

Expand Fist List Lung Taken
Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
AIMEE BENDER

Rice Rolling Survive Year
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.
AIMEE BENDER

Around Corner Evoke Inhabiting Reader Resurfacing

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