All Lorrie Moore Quotes
- I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one… Ago
- I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him… Bicep
- She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there? Asked
- She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. Crime
- You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this,… Averted
- The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing. Affectionate
- She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love. Afraid
- This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But… Fastidiousness
- She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at… Across
- I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how. Fool
- I feared Sarah was one of those women who instead of laughing said, "That's funny," or instead of smiling said, "That's interesting," or instead of… Blithering
- It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in… Ache
- I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly… Brightly
- After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed… Adult
- We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying. Dialogue
- Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so… Best
- This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come to know its… Choose
- I wondered about the half-life of regret. Half
- But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might… Close
- Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not. Been
- Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared. Cub
- Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy. Destroys
- When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will… All
- It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train… All
- Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know… Adults