395 Quotes by Lorrie Moore

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

Through all the muck of themselves, the times they had unobligated each other, the anger, the permitted absences, the loneliness grown dangerous, she had always returned to him. He’d had faith in that – abracadabra! But eventually the deadlines set in again. Could you live in the dead excellence of a thing – the stupid mortar of a body, the stubborn husk love had crawled from? Yes, he thought.

All of life seems to me a strange dream about losing things you never had to begin with. About trying to find your glasses when you can’t see because you don’t have your glasses on.

Farmers aren’t rich. They have land but no money.” Actually, my father didn’t even have that much land. He had once stood on the porch and flung his arms out and said, “Someday kids, all this will be yours.” But his knuckles hit the porch supports. Even the porch wasn’t that big.

If you’re suicidal, and you don’t actually kill yourself, you become known as ’wry.

Visit a place at night, she knew, and it was yours.

You know, I’m just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don’t feel pressured to be otherwise.

I feel his lack of love for me.

From here on in, many things can happen. But the main one will be this: you decide not to go to law school after all, and, instead, you spend a good, big chunk of your adult life telling people how you decided not to go to law school after all. Somehow you end up writing again.