“He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not… — Aimee Bender Lightning Copy Share Image
“I felt her come by later, as I was dozing off. Her standing, by my bed. The depth of shadow of a… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.” — Aimee Bender Aging Copy Share Image
For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“The address label wouldn't come off so I put the ripped electric bill back in its stack by the phone. On top… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Though loss did not pass from one person to another liker a baton; it just formed a bigger and bigger pool of… — Aimee Bender Losing a loved one Copy Share Image
I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me… — Aimee Bender Ability Copy Share Image
For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“She was tired these days because she was having job trouble too; her trouble meant she did not know how she could… — Aimee Bender Couples Copy Share Image
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“He had set up a telescope on a corner of the roof, and we went up to take a look. This is… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“The sensor did not seem to be restricted to my mother's food, and there was so much to sort through, a torrent… — Aimee Bender Bread Copy Share Image
“My mother had been baking more often in general, but she took plates of desserts to the carpentry studio, where her boss,… — Aimee Bender Baked goods Copy Share Image
“She too looked like a regular lady, living in the world- didn't seem particularly with it or excitable or stellar. But that… — Aimee Bender Chef Copy Share Image
Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother… — Aimee Bender Dignity Copy Share Image
“George Malcolm: half white, half black, with messy tousled hair, rumpled and tugged between kind of curly and extremely curly. Once, a… — Aimee Bender Clarity of mind Copy Share Image
“And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better… — Aimee Bender Addiction Copy Share Image
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our… — Aimee Bender Ghost Copy Share Image
“The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.” — Aimee Bender Depression Copy Share Image
I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears… — Aimee Bender Away from each other Copy Share Image
It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Sherrie would be there, and the last time I’d seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw… — Aimee Bender Food Copy Share Image
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful… — Aimee Bender Amen Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.” — Aimee Bender Death Copy Share Image
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because… — Aimee Bender Birthday Copy Share Image
“We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.” — Aimee Bender Attraction Copy Share Image
“With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness… — Aimee Bender Gestures Copy Share Image
“I loved my dish towel. This one was two-toned, and had, on one side, stitchings of fat purple roses on a lavender… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Books Copy Share Image
I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“I like to smile at the men who look mean so they know I believe in their better selves. That makes a… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
