I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.” — Aimee Bender Advice Copy Share Image
To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want. — Aimee Bender Cave Copy Share Image
“Your eyes shine," he said. "How do they do that?" "Blood," she said.” — Aimee Bender Funny Copy Share Image
Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Dad lost his job. Then he got a new job. Then he got his old job back and went back to it.… — Aimee Bender Dry-humor Copy Share Image
“but the rest of the evening is nothing but the trembling edges of something I am so tired of feeling and I… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in… — Aimee Bender Children Copy Share Image
But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes… — Aimee Bender Buddhism Copy Share Image
“I'd stopped waving to passengers in cars by then- I'd grown suspicious of people and all the complications of interior lives- so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved… — Aimee Bender Men Copy Share Image
“In those days, she let her hair loose, down to her waist, and whenever I met old friends of hers, they would… — Aimee Bender Friendship Copy Share Image
I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first… — Aimee Bender Amen Copy Share Image
“In the evenings, my father and I ate dinner quietly in front of the TV together. Wednesday night, Thursday. Frozen dinners I'd… — Aimee Bender Enchiladas Copy Share Image
“I've noticed this: when it's the first date, and you fuck, the guy hold you much better than he does the next… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“My birthday cake was her latest project because it was not from a mix but instead built from scratch- the flour, the… — Aimee Bender Baking Copy Share Image
“The people were all busy in their cars, listening to the radio, so there was no one to smile at, so I… — Aimee Bender First person Copy Share Image
“And in it all, the sensation of shaking my fists at the sky, shaking my fists high up to the sky, because… — Aimee Bender Anger Copy Share Image
“In Murakami's short story 'The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day,' the main character is a writer. In describing the act of… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“I started in our neighborhood, buying a pastrami burrito at Oki Dog and a deluxe gardenburger at Astro Burger and matzoh-ball soup… — Aimee Bender Chef Copy Share Image
“When I crossed the street, according to my mother, I still had to hold someone’s hand. At ten, I would be able… — Aimee Bender Parenting Copy Share Image
“It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.” — Aimee Bender Communication Copy Share Image
You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there. — Aimee Bender Doritos Copy Share Image
I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“One could not spend one's life in the imaginings of another life.” — Aimee Bender Another life Copy Share Image
