“It was ridiculous, at times, how many tears one body could produce.” — Aimee Bender Body Copy Share Image
“Men love to watch two women kiss, but how I love to watch two men.” — Aimee Bender Kiss Copy Share Image
The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling.… — Aimee Bender Communication 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 the rest of the evening is nothing but the trembling edges of something I am so tired of feeling and I… — Aimee Bender 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 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 Copy Share Image
While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the… — Aimee Bender 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 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 Copy Share Image
“I'd stopped waving to passengers in cars by then- I'd grown suspicious of people and all the complications of interior lives- so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first… — Aimee Bender Amen Copy Share Image
I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not… — Aimee Bender 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 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
“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
Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't… — Aimee Bender Children 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Here is something I understand about psychology, and I think it relates to fiction: if you loosen up your understanding of yourself… — Aimee Bender Books Copy Share Image
“That," she said, "is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to… — Aimee Bender 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
“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
“I bit into the chocolate chip. Slowed myself down. By then, almost a week in, I could sort through the assault of… — Aimee Bender Anger 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
“One could not spend one's life in the imaginings of another life.” — Aimee Bender Another life Copy Share Image
“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.” — Aimee Bender Love Copy Share Image
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want. — Aimee Bender Cave Copy Share Image
“Your eyes shine," he said. "How do they do that?" "Blood," she said.” — Aimee Bender Funny Copy Share Image
