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Them Quotes by Lorrie Moore
- Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When…
- (Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.
- 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…
- The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes…
- That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that -…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them,…
- 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…
- 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:…
- 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…
- [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…
- One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
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