“My soup arrived. Crusted with cheese, golden at the edges. The waiter placed it carefully in front of me, and I broke… — Aimee Bender Food 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
“Your eyes shine," he said. "How do they do that?" "Blood," she said.” — Aimee Bender Funny 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
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 Bigger 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 Love 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
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
“Then he sat down at the table of a larger man, a man with tattoos but the old kind, before tattoos became… — Aimee Bender Life 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
“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
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
“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 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
“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 First date 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
“I like to smile at the men who look mean so they know I believe in their better selves. That makes a… — Aimee Bender Bettering-life 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
But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE,… — Aimee Bender Ask me 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 Car accident Copy Share Image
With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows… — Aimee Bender Apartment 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 what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before… — Aimee Bender Believe Copy Share Image
I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side. — Aimee Bender Ideas Copy Share Image
