“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
“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
“When she left the store, emboldened, receipt tucked into her purse, folded twice, Janet thought of all the chicken dishes she had… — Aimee Bender Chicken 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 Blow 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
“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
“Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so… — Aimee Bender Colors 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 Gardening Copy Share Image
You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing. — Aimee Bender Chins Copy Share Image
“We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't… — Aimee Bender Better things Copy Share Image
“She looked over my shoulder once while I was texting, which was already annoying, and when I wrote lol she made a… — Aimee Bender Humor 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
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang,… — Aimee Bender About 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 Trees 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
“Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time… — Aimee Bender Advice 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 Balancing Copy Share Image
“Pain was no longer a mystery to him, and a man familiar with pain has entered a new kind of freedom.” — Aimee Bender Freedom Copy Share Image
“Being there was like having a good cry, the clearing of the air after weight has been held.” — Aimee Bender 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
“Rose,sensing her mother's distress..."She did not face me, but I could feel the vibration of tears, a kind of pain hive,rustling inside… — Aimee Bender Emotional pain 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
