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

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

- 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 ey…

- Aimee Bender

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

- Aimee Bender

That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removin…

- 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 eno…

- Aimee Bender

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

- 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 …

- Aimee Bender

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radia…

- Aimee Bender