It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.
Lorrie MooreTag: toxic love-story adventures-in-love entitled-in-love
I don't have a love life. I have a like life.'
Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love...
Tag: love-life love-story free-from-love
Everyone these days was defensive about their lives. Everyone had settled.
Lorrie MooreTag: settling defensiveness people-today
Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after everyone else had gone home.
Lorrie MooreTag: giving-up stagnant-relationships struggles-in-relationships
Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.
Lorrie MooreTag: self-awareness life-and-living self-realization scrutinize
For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.
Lorrie MooreTag: illusions lasting-love love-illusions
Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn’t bravery at all. It is automatic, unflinching, a mix of man and machine, consuming and unquestionable obligation meeting illness move for move in a giant even-steven game of chess – an unending round of something that looks like shadowboxing, though between love and death, which is the shadow? “Everyone admires us for our courage,” says one man. “They have no idea what they’re talking about.”
“Courage requires options,” the man adds.
“There are options,” says a woman with a thick suede headband. “You could give up. You could fall apart.”
“No you can’t. Nobody does. I’ve never seen it,” says the man. “Well, not really fall apart.
Tag: love death courage bravery illness death-of-a-loved-one death-and-sickness death-and-love
It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.
Lorrie MooreTag: gender relationships feminism dating gender-roles feminism-gender
It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really.
Lorrie Mooreit seemed one could just say are you serious? for the rest of existence and it would never be unjustified and would always have to be answered and so would keep the conversation going
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