"This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic."
— Lorrie Moore (Like Life)

"She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." -- Willing"
— Lorrie Moore

"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 America: Stories)