All Lorrie Moore Quotes
- She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within her. She looked… Attractive
- The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes… Affair
- Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans… Blood
- It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library. Book
- That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that -… All
- This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic. Bad Relationship
- Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there… Athletic
- Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a… Begin
- She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy… Been
- Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks. Inspirational
- You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy. Believe
- When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean… Essentially
- Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had. Warren Lasher Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano Charles Deats or Keats Alfonse Tuck it in your pocket.… Alfonse
- I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change. Accrued
- 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 doing… Assess
- I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it. Inspirational
- One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination. Imagination
- No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all… All
- All the world's a stage we're going through. All
- Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. Area
- Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your… All
- Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life… Been
- Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one. All
- When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because… Bad
- Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly. Another Planet