It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe.
Lorrie MooreTag: childhood
The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally.
Lorrie MooreTag: marriage
I cried for everyone and for all the scrabbly, funny love one sent out into the world like some hit song that enters space and bounds off to another galaxy, a tune so pretty you think the words are true, you do!
Lorrie MooreTag: love
I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.
Lorrie MooreTag: prayer
They looked like frogs who’d been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs.
Lorrie MooreTag: love
Philosophize: you are a mistress, part of a great hysterical you mean historical tradition.
Lorrie MooreNothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
Lorrie MooreThis is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grow sarcastic.
Lorrie MooreOne had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
Lorrie MooreBut it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.
Lorrie MooreTag: life friends home living where-you-live
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