"Her life her life had taken on the……" — Lorrie Moore
"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 with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush."
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112 Quotes by Lorrie Moore
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There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
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