“From Charades: when she was younger she was a frustrated mother, so she is pleased when her children act as is they… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Sometimes as I’m drifting toward sleep, in the beginnings of that dissolution, I wonder where I am, when this is, and realize… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - not bad… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I was too fresh from childhood. Subconsciously, my deepest brain still a cupboard of fairy tales, I suppose I believed that if… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I watched my friend Eleanor give birth," she said. "Once you've seen a child born, you realize a baby's not much more… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“She had to learn not to be afraid of a man, the way, in your childhood, you learned not to be afraid… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I felt sorry for Mary-Emma and all she was going through, every day waking up to something new. Though maybe that was… — 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 Image
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
