155 Quotes by Susanna Moore

I realized that he'd been trying to work up the interest to flirt with me.

I remembered that it was masculine gestures that aroused me.

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

I have to admit that I was very happy to finish 'In the Cut,' and happy not to return to it.

I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.

The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.