Cindy

“Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.”
― 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 love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness