Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.
Lorrie MooreA short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Lorrie MooreTags: writing novels short-stories
I would look out upon the wildflowers, the mulch of swamps and leaves, the spring mosses greening on the rocks, or the boulderous mountains of street-black snow, whatever season it happened to be- my mittens clotted with ice, or my hands grimy with marsh mud- and from the back of my larynx I’d send part of my voice out toward the horizon and part of it straight up toward the sky. There must have been some pain in me. I wanted to howl and fly and break apart.
Lorrie MooreThese were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails.
Lorrie MooreI guessed that only at the last possible minute did the soul in a determined fashion flee the dying flesh. Who could blame it for its reluctance? We loved our lives more than we ever knew, and at the end felt the bounty of them, as one would say in church, felt even the richness of their missed opportunities, or just understood that they were more than we had realized during the living of them and a lot to give up.
Lorrie MooreBut that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.
Lorrie MooreTags: fear writing confidence inadequacy
That was also back in the days when I thought the ice-cream man lived in his truck
Lorrie MoorePersonally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce
Lorrie MooreThe ants are my friends- they're blowing in the wind
Lorrie MooreThey had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
Lorrie MooreTags: life love relationships faithfulness
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