I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I had seen this exact same expression and movement before - where? In the future I would come to know that look… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“They looked like frogs who’d been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I cried for everyone and for all the scrabbly, funny love one sent out into the world like some hit song that… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grow sarcastic.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“And it was then that she first felt all the dark love and shame that came from the pure accident of home,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“And though he continued never to express a single word of love for me, not in any way of his several languages,… — 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
“Where does love go? When something you have taped on the wall falls off, what has happened to the stickum? It has… — 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
