“Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.”Lorrie Moore Source: Self-Help
“I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?”Lorrie Moore
“Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.”Lorrie Moore Source: Self-Help
“It is like having a book out from the library.It is like constantly having a book out from the library.”Lorrie Moore Source: Self-Help
“Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day; like sit-ups, they can make you thin”Lorrie Moore Source: Self-Help