“They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.”Lorrie Moore Source: Anagrams
“Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.”Lorrie Moore Birds of AmericaSource: Birds of America
“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
“There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, "" Or worse, feeling interrupted and tired, "Wha—?”Lorrie Moore Birds of AmericaSource: Birds of America
“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.”Lorrie Moore Source: Bark: Stories