395 Quotes by Lorrie Moore

Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It’s also where the comedy is, which I’m interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.

The catalog showed a man sleeping peacefully while his model-wife read a book in soft but focused light. In real life, however, the light was so intense that the same man would have had to wear sunglasses.

I remember thinking that once there had been a time when women died of brain fevers caught from the prick of their hat pins, and that still, after all this time, it was hard being a girl, lugging around these bodies that were never right – wounds that needed fixing, heads that needed hats, corrections, corrections.

Personally I’ve never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don’t even pronounce.

There are lots of people in this world, Moss, but you can’t be in love with them all.

If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let’s Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.

I want to pretend there’s such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.

This ceremony of approval was a charade – everything had been decided before we got here – and as with all charades it was wanly ebullient, necessary, and thin.

Amber was past tense. We were covering her inanimate face in the white sheet of was.