To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.” — Aimee Bender Communication 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
I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can… — Aimee Bender Access Copy Share Image
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating. — Aimee Bender 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
“I will never die, thought the cake to itself, in even simpler terms, as cakes did not have sophisticated use of language.” — Aimee Bender 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 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
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 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 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 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
“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
“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
“When we sleep together, he holds me like he loves me. I've noticed this: when it's the first date, and you fuck,… — Aimee Bender First date 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 Copy Share Image
“He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother… — Aimee Bender Dignity Copy Share Image
“George Malcolm: half white, half black, with messy tousled hair, rumpled and tugged between kind of curly and extremely curly. Once, a… — Aimee Bender Clarity of mind Copy Share Image
“On the kitchen counter, she'd set out the ingredients: Flour bag, sugar box, two brown eggs nestled in the grooves between tiles.… — Aimee Bender Birthday cake Copy Share Image
“He breathed in her hair, the sweet-smelling thickness of it. My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed… — Aimee Bender Parenting Copy Share Image
“He had set up a telescope on a corner of the roof, and we went up to take a look. This is… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“The sensor did not seem to be restricted to my mother's food, and there was so much to sort through, a torrent… — Aimee Bender Bread Copy Share Image
“My mother had been baking more often in general, but she took plates of desserts to the carpentry studio, where her boss,… — Aimee Bender Baked goods Copy Share Image
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our… — Aimee Bender Ghost 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
“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
It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Sherrie would be there, and the last time I’d seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw… — Aimee Bender Food 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 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
“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
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because… — Aimee Bender Birthday 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
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 Copy Share Image
