“At lunch you order steamed vegetables because you're remembering that you have a heart too. You feel humbled by your heart, it… — Aimee Bender Health Copy Share Image
“I bit into the oatmeal. Same levels- now the oats, well dried, but not so well watered, then the raisins, half tasteless,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“I can’t tell you exactly what I’m looking for, but I’ll know it when it happens. I want to be breathless and… — Aimee Bender Breathless Copy Share Image
In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“On the drive home, she sat in the backseat, as she did on occasion. He said it was to protect her from… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“When she left the store, emboldened, receipt tucked into her purse, folded twice, Janet thought of all the chicken dishes she had… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody… — Aimee Bender Alive Copy Share Image
“He moved his fingers down her whole spine, one by one by one, and during the time it took to do that,… — Aimee Bender Empty space Copy Share Image
It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its… — Aimee Bender Alive 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
“...after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love… — Aimee Bender Love Copy Share Image
“...part of trying to attract those poet-men was to look a little like I had wandered onto campus by accident after having… — Aimee Bender Poetry Copy Share Image
