Aimee Bender Quotes

Quotes about:

• I want to be violated by insight.

  Aimee Bender

  Want, Insight

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.15, Anchor

  40 Copy quote

• We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

  Aimee Bender

  Smart, Heart, Brain

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor

  38 Copy quote

• It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

  Aimee Bender

  Moments, Rescue, Surprising

  33 Copy quote

• As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

  Aimee Bender

  Dream, Writing, Awake

  FaceBook post by Aimee Bender from May 25, 2014

  15 Copy quote

• I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

  Aimee Bender

  Circles, Tails, Edges

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.158, Random House

  0 Copy quote

• It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

  Aimee Bender

  Writing, Pages, Best Work

  Interview with Ryan Boudinot, www.pifmagazine.com. November, 1998.

  0 Copy quote

• and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

  Aimee Bender

  Wise, Wine, Eye

  Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Aimee Bender

  Strong, Kids, Later In Life

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.117, Random House

  22 Copy quote

• It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. 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.

  Aimee Bender

  Life, Sadness, Loss

  0 Copy quote

• My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

  Aimee Bender

  Rope, Band, Stories

  2 Copy quote

• Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

  Aimee Bender

  Light, Yellow, Comfort

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.122, Random House

  11 Copy quote

• 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.

  Aimee Bender

  Tears, Groups, Away From Each Other

  0 Copy quote

• Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

  Aimee Bender

  Mom, Magazines, Pages

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.51, Random House

  5 Copy quote

• It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

  Aimee Bender

  Spring, Revealing, Happens

  0 Copy quote

• …kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

  Aimee Bender

  Kissing, Years, Rolling

  6 Copy quote

• My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.

  Aimee Bender

  Caves, Want, Eyelids

  0 Copy quote

• When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

  Aimee Bender

  Light, Self, Hands

  0 Copy quote

• I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

  Aimee Bender

  Taken, Paper, Fists

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.259, Random House

  0 Copy quote

• To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

  Aimee Bender

  Gratitude, Someone You Love, Barometer

  0 Copy quote

• 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

  Dark, Hands, Rooms

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.67, Random House

  0 Copy quote

• You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

  Aimee Bender

  Focus, Ruins, Ifs

  0 Copy quote

• I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

  Aimee Bender

  Two, Space, Stride

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.205, Random House

  3 Copy quote

• While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

  Aimee Bender

  Moving, Cutting, Simple

  Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.90, Anchor

  2 Copy quote

• 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.

  Aimee Bender

  Birthday, Cake, Childhood

  3 Copy quote

• 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. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

  Aimee Bender

  Burgers, Littles, Handmade

  11 Copy quote

Page 1 of 3

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin