395 Quotes by Lorrie Moore

From Charades: when she was younger she was a frustrated mother, so she is pleased when her children act as is they don’t remember.

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.

These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails.

Love is the answer, said the songs, and that’s OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn’t really even an answer, just a reply.

So I needed to be womanised. I was losing my sheen.

It was part of being a girl in the ’60s that you were creative.

Although Kit and Rafe had met in the peace movement, marching, organizing, making no nukes signs, now they wanted to kill each other. They had become, also, a little pro-nuke.

Do not resent her. Think about the situation, for instance, when you take the last trash bag from its box: you must throw out the box by putting it in that very trash bag. What was once contained, now must contain. The container, then, becomes the contained, the enveloped, the held.

A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully. That was the only happiness in life: to choose the best unhappiness. An unwise move, good God, you could squander everything.