“It was ridiculous, at times, how many tears one body could produce.” — Aimee Bender Body Copy Share Image
As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault. — Aimee Bender Be patient Copy Share Image
“Being there was like having a good cry, the clearing of the air after weight has been held.” — Aimee Bender Held Copy Share Image
I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q... — Aimee Bender Circle Copy Share Image
“I loved my brother, but relying on him was like closing a hand around air.” — Aimee Bender Brother 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
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to… — Aimee Bender Feelings Copy Share Image
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item… — Aimee Bender Clothes 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 Appreciate 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 About 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 Bed 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 Aimee-bender Copy Share Image
“Mom’s smiles were so full of feeling that people leaned back a little when she greeted them. It was hard to know… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.” — Aimee Bender Humor Copy Share Image
“Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than… — Aimee Bender College Copy Share Image
One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on… — Aimee Bender Because Copy Share Image
and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a… — Aimee Bender Blooming 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
“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
I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able… — Aimee Bender Able Copy Share Image
“No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The… — Aimee Bender Abundance Copy Share Image
At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't.… — Aimee Bender About Copy Share Image
“Does it work with sandwiches? he asked. I didn't move. He handed it over. George was watching with a kind of neutral… — Aimee Bender Food Copy Share Image
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and… — Aimee Bender Air Copy Share Image
“My mouth- always so active, alert- could now generally identify forty of fifty states in the produce or meat I ate. I… — Aimee Bender Food Copy Share Image
“What I taste, I said, reading from my page, is what I remember from my last Dorito, plus the chemicals that are… — Aimee Bender Doritos 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
“The room filled with the smell of warming butter and sugar and lemon and eggs, and at five, the timer buzzed and… — Aimee Bender Cake 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
“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 Chins Copy Share Image
“Your eyes shine," he said. "How do they do that?" "Blood," she said.” — Aimee Bender Funny Copy Share Image
I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot. — Aimee Bender Arcs 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
