“When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with…”Lorrie Moore Birds of AmericaSource: Birds of America
“I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.”Lorrie Moore Source: Anagrams
“Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.”Lorrie Moore Source: Self-Help
“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