Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
Aimee Bender
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Nothing
Rubbing
Chin
Chins
Expect
Perfect
Girl
More quotes by Aimee Bender
...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
Aimee Bender
Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
Aimee Bender
It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
Aimee Bender
With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
Aimee Bender
I admired that stride it was like he folded space in two with it.
Aimee Bender
You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
Aimee Bender
I am the drying meadow you the unspoken apology he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
Aimee Bender
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
Aimee Bender
To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
Aimee Bender
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.
Aimee Bender
While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
Aimee Bender
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
Aimee Bender
My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
Aimee Bender
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
Aimee Bender
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing it's rejuvenating.
Aimee Bender
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.
Aimee Bender
I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
Aimee Bender
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
Aimee Bender
As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
Aimee Bender
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.
Aimee Bender