1
No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.Aimee Bender
2
Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.Aimee Bender
3
It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened.Aimee Bender
4
He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.Aimee Bender
5
She could feel it brimming on her lips, that superstar smile, the bow shape, the teeth long and solid tombstones.Aimee Bender
6
Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical.Aimee Bender
7
We end up kissing her for an hour, and her lips are so soft they are almost like a joke.Aimee Bender
8
I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles.Aimee Bender