“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after… — 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… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“A healthy death, like anything — job promotions or looking younger — was simply a matter of “feeling good about yourself.” Which… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I guessed that only at the last possible minute did the soul in a determined fashion flee the dying flesh. Who could… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“The piece was like an elegant interrogation made of tangled yarn, a query from a well-dressed man in a casket, not yet… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn’t bravery at all.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everyone had their own way of preparing to die. Life got you ready.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Though she would have preferred long ago to have died, fled, gotten it all over with, the body--Jesus, how the body!--took its… — 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
