Aimee Bender: Likeness

Aimee Bender is Novelist, short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Aimee Bender: 50 quotes 0 likes

“I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.”

Aimee Bender

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.”

Aimee Bender

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Kiss

“I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.”

Aimee Bender

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Idea

“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.”

Aimee Bender

Source: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

Fear , Feeling , Birthday , Thinking

“It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.”

Aimee Bender

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Understanding , Reading , Daughters

“I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…”

Aimee Bender

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake