But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too much time playing their games, my mind grew peckish and longed to lose itself in some book I had in my backpack. I was ever hopeful of early bedtimes and long naps.
Lorrie MooreSarah'nın gülmek yerine, "Komik," ya da gülümsemek yerine, "İlginç," ya da "Aptal zırva geri zekâlının tekisin," demek yerine, "Şey, sanırım bu ondan biraz daha karmaşık," diyen kadınlardan olmasından korktum. Öyle insanların yanında ne yapacağımı hiç bilemezdim, özellikle de siz konuştuktan sonra gizemli bir şekilde "Anlıyorum," diyenlerin. Genellikle sadece susardım.
Lorrie MooreTags: insanlar
Küçük bir sinek vızlayıp kulağımın yanından geçti, sonra kayboldu. Daha önce hiç Noel'de sinek görmemiştim; Sanat 102 dersinde hissetmemiz öğretildiği gibi, iki tanıdık şeyin beklenmedik şekilde yan yana gelmesinin gerçeküstülüğünü hissederek ona vurdum. Gelecek bu olacaktı.
Lorrie MooreTags: sanat gerçeküstü iklim olağan
We are lucky simply to be alive together; why get differentiating and judgemental about who is here among us? Thank God there is anyone at all.
Lorrie MooreJane gave Heffie an anxious look. It said "Please forgive me." It also said "What is your problem?" and "Have a nice day" Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat
Lorrie MooreWhat makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and-let’s be frank—fun, fun, fun! There might be things people will get away with. And not just motel towels. There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents with farm machinery. But you have to not know in order to see what stories your life’s efforts bring you. The mystery is all.
Lorrie MooreJohn had dreamed so long and hard of this place that he had hoped it right out of existence. Probably no place in the world could withstand such an assault of human wishing.
Lorrie MooreShe tried to smile warmly but wondered if she looked "fakey," something Ariel sometimes accused her of. Ariel had said. "It's like you're trying to be happy out of a book." Millie owned several books about trying to be happy.
Lorrie MooreBut this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the extra moon that is circling the earth unbeknownst to science.
Lorrie MooreWe used awesome the way the British used brilliant: for anything at all. Perhaps . . . it was a kind of antidepressant: inflated rhetoric to keep the sorry truth at bay.
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