Lorrie Moore Quotes

Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.

Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...

The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame.

I had one elegantly folded cookie—a short paper nerve baked in an ear.

Life is sad. Here is someone.

I don't have a love life. I have a like life.'Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love...

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.

Divorce, she could see, would be like marriage - a power grab, as in who would be the dog, and who would be the owner of the dog.

Let's make our own way, ' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.

She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it.

So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time

Every family is a family of alligators.

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.