--- title: "12 Want Quotes By Lorrie Moore" description: "12 Want quotes by Lorrie Moore. Plus more from Lorrie Moore and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e1/lorrie-moore-870_endurance_i-want-to-pretend-there-s-such-a-thing-a_2361823.png" --- > [I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-want-to-pretend-there-s-such-a-thing-as-requited-love-as-the/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e1/lorrie-moore-870_endurance_i-want-to-pretend-there-s-such-a-thing-a_2361823.png) > [I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-don-t-care-if-i-m-a-fish-i-still-want-a-bicycle/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33e/lorrie-moore-870_bicycle_i-don-t-care-if-i-m-a-fish-i-still-want_2044906.png) > [I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-usually-grow-sick-of-my-short-story-characters-and-think-i-never/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/058/lorrie-moore-870_again_i-usually-grow-sick-of-my-short-story-ch_2236029.png) > [I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-just-don-t-want-you-to-feel-uncomfortable-about-this-he-says-say/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/lorrie-moore-870_cool-person_i-just-don-t-want-you-to-feel-uncomforta_2795104.png) > [Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/rather-than-a-teaching-tool-i-think-a-novel-is-more-of-a-witnessing/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56c/lorrie-moore-870_books_rather-than-a-teaching-tool-i-think-a-no_1110284.jpg) > [They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/they-had-finally-the-only-thing-anyone-really-wants-in-life-someone/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecc/lorrie-moore-870_hands_they-had-finally-the-only-thing-anyone-r_1636541.png) > [I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-want-to-create-something-that-doesn-t-exist-exactly-in-the-real/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/lorrie-moore-870_create_i-want-to-create-something-that-doesn-t_228731.png) > [Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/some-people-get-their-books-on-the-best-seller-list-and-then-they/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a75/lorrie-moore-870_books_some-people-get-their-books-on-the-best_1497928.png) > [“You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/you-emptied-the-top-rack-of-the-dishwasher-but-not-the-bottom-so-the/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e4/lorrie-moore-870_bottom_you-emptied-the-top-rack-of-the-dishwash_1233190.png) > [I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-ve-been-falsely-accused-of-drawing-too-much-from-real-life-but-i-am/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f7/lorrie-moore-870_accused_i-ve-been-falsely-accused-of-drawing-too_1874152.png) > [ \[T\]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/t-he-normal-and-the-everyday-are-often-amazingly-unstoppable-and-what/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/056/lorrie-moore-870_civilization_t-he-normal-and-the-everyday-are-often-a_825089.png) > [You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/you-couldn-t-pretend-you-had-lost-nothing-you-had-to-begin-there-not/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3f/lorrie-moore-870_blood_you-couldn-t-pretend-you-had-lost-nothin_1195922.png) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Lorrie Moore > [But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/but-i-believed-in-starting-over-there-was-finally-i-knew-only-rupture/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-m-very-interested-in-what-people-will-do-for-money-money-it-s/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/one-of-the-problems-with-people-in-chicago-she-remembered-was-that/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/if-you-had-forgotten-it-would-quickly-come-back-to-you-aloneness-was/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/once-love-had-seemed-like-magic-now-it-seemed-like-tricks/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/observing-others-go-through-them-he-used-to-admire-midlife-crises-the/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/start-dating-someone-who-is-funny-someone-who-has-what-in-high-school/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/you-are-unhappy-because-you-believe-in-such-a-thing-as-happy/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/amber-was-not-shy-if-she-had-been-shy-not-one-of-us-would-be-at/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/people-will-do-anything-anything-for-a-really-nice-laugh/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/farmers-aren-t-rich-they-have-land-but-no-money-actually-my-father/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/my-grandmother-who-when-i-visited-stared-at-me-with-the-staggering/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-count-too-heavily-on-birthdays-though-i-know-i-shouldn-t-inevitably/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [“Life is sad. Here is someone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/life-is-sad-here-is-someone/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) > [I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-had-never-feared-insomnia-before-like-prison-wouldn-t-it-just-give/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/lorrie-moore/#itemlist", "name": "12 Want Quotes By Lorrie Moore", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. 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