“Adoption. A realized fantasy of your parents not really being your parents. Your genes could thrust one arm in the air and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Her parents had gone from a couple who would be different, who would be better than anyone, who were determined to be… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“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
“No, we’re not getting married,” I told my mother on the phone when she asked. “He’s going to California and I’m staying… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Her rage flopped awkwardly away like a duck. She felt as she had when her cold, fierce parents had at last grown… — 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… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to, even in my imagination, even for a second, to conflate this sophisticated woman with my mother, a woman… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Cold men destroy women,” my mother wrote me years later. “They woo them with something personable that they bring out for show,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“My mother's capacity for happiness was a small soup bone salting a large pot.” — 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
“In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you… — 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
