Quotes by Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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Because when, previously, they had wrenched a book out of his hands, he had stared into space so disconcertingly it made — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindf — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room la — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- lik — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our young — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
I bit into the chocolate chip. Slowed myself down.By then, almost a week in, I could sort through the assault of layers — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want. — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
I started in our neighborhood, buying a pastrami burrito at Oki Dog and a deluxe gardenburger at Astro Burger and matzoh — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
My favorite of all was still the place on Vermont, the French cafe, La Lyonnaise, that had given me the best onion soup — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Sherrie would be there, and the last time I’d seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw me and ran ou — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't apprec — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
...after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her l — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
George Malcolm: half white, half black, with messy tousled hair, rumpled and tugged between kind of curly and extremely — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother who had — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers. — Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake