Love Quotes by Lorrie Moore

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

— Lorrie Moore

I don't have a love life. I have a like life.

— Lorrie Moore

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

— Lorrie Moore

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

— Lorrie Moore

“When affection fell on its ass, politeness could step up.”

— Lorrie Moore

“They looked like frogs who’d been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs.”

— Lorrie Moore

Most things good for writing are bad for life.

— Lorrie Moore

I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.

— Lorrie Moore

“And it was then that she first felt all the dark love and shame that came from the pure accident of home,…

— Lorrie Moore

The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.

— Lorrie Moore

Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.

— Lorrie Moore

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

“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grow sarcastic.”

— Lorrie Moore

“I don't have a love life. I have a like life.' Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be…

— Lorrie Moore

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a…

— Lorrie Moore

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

— Lorrie Moore

“So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant…

— Lorrie Moore

“I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so…

— Lorrie Moore

I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when…

— Lorrie Moore

“I cried for everyone and for all the scrabbly, funny love one sent out into the world like some hit song that…

— Lorrie Moore

“Love drains from you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing…

— Lorrie Moore

All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe…

— Lorrie Moore

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

“Wake up one morning with a man you had thought you'd spend your life with, and realize, a rock in your gut,…

— Lorrie Moore

“Why do you haunt me? You, like a tattoo on my tongue, like the bay leaf at the bottom of every pan.…

— Lorrie Moore

“And though he continued never to express a single word of love for me, not in any way of his several languages,…

— Lorrie Moore

The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We…

— Lorrie Moore

“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

“Where does love go? When something you have taped on the wall falls off, what has happened to the stickum? It has…

— Lorrie Moore

“Love is art, not truth. It's like painting a scenery.' These are the things one takes from mothers. Once they die, of…

— Lorrie Moore

“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

I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.

— Lorrie Moore

“Mostly, however, he had books about love. He believed in studying his own heart this way.”

— Lorrie Moore

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

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one…

— Lorrie Moore

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

— Lorrie Moore

“It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if…

— Lorrie Moore

“This is Quilty's audition ritual: whenever he feels it is time for it, he calls upon himself to audition for love. He…

— Lorrie Moore

This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come…

— Lorrie Moore

“I had seen this exact same expression and movement before - where? In the future I would come to know that look…

— Lorrie Moore