All Lorrie Moore Quotes
- My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step… Any
- But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best… All
- Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off:… Able
- I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love. Endurance
- We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. All
- The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you’re already male to begin with poses… Answerless
- I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that. Him
- Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine… Anxiety
- A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. Affair
- Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce Even Pronounce
- They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die. Anyone
- I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with… Air
- You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house. Belief
- But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless. Ahead
- I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read? Feared
- Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber… College
- [T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter… Amazingly
- I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no… All
- What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do:… Accidents
- Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do… Cannot Help