I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“She recognized the panic at even a moment's boredom that all these piles contained, as well as the unreasonable hopefulness regarding time.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“At times like these, she thought, it was probably a good idea to carry a small hand puppet.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Tears, she had once been told, were designed to eliminate toxins, and they poured down her face and slimed her neck and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read? — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
