Famous Lorrie Moore Quotes

  • She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love. – Lorrie Moore

    She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.– Lorrie Moore

  • 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… – Lorrie Moore

    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…– Lorrie Moore

  • Life is sad. Here is someone. – Lorrie Moore

    Life is sad. Here is someone.– Lorrie Moore

  • I had one elegantly folded cookie-”a short paper nerve baked in an ear. – Lorrie Moore

    I had one elegantly folded cookie-”a short paper nerve baked in an ear.– Lorrie Moore

  • And all love that had overtaken her would have to be a memory, a truck on the interstate roaring up from the left, a thing she must let pass. – Lorrie Moore

    And all love that had overtaken her would have to be a memory, a truck on the interstate roaring up from the left, a thing she must let pass.– Lorrie Moore

  • The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame. – Lorrie Moore

    The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame.– Lorrie Moore

  • Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain… – Lorrie Moore

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

  • Anyone who’s read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles. – Lorrie Moore

    Anyone who’s read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.– Lorrie Moore

  • But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes. – Lorrie Moore

    But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.– Lorrie Moore

  • Through college she had been a feminist-”basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say. – Lorrie Moore

    Through college she had been a feminist-”basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.– Lorrie Moore