The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

— Aimee Bender

Though loss did not pass from one person to another liker a baton; it just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers. And, she thought, scratching the coarseness of the horse's mane, it did not leave once lodged, did it, simply changed form and asked repeatedly for attention and care, as each year revealed a new knot to cry out and consider - smaller, sure, but never gone.

— Aimee Bender

Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sash sound, realizing that maybe through her pleasure she'd heard the front door open and close.

— Aimee Bender

We end up kissing her for an hour, and her lips are so soft they are almost like a joke.

— 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

We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.

— 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

With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -less also help: patientest instead of patience, fastness instead of speed, honestest instead of honesty. With these choices, many words can be indicated, and pointing or gesticulating usually works.

— Aimee Bender

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

— Aimee Bender

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

— Aimee Bender