Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender
Aimee Benderis an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal plots and characters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 June 1969
CountryUnited States of America
littles burgers handmade
That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
mom pages magazines
Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
wise wine eye
and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
circles tails edges
I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...
fire rooms cold
But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
hands world streets
We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
writing people kind
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
clothes dating skins
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
thinking unbearable said
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
want caves eyelids
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
bottles messages meals
I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
space lines dots
I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
thinking important bombs
There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.
echoes participants
I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.