See What Can Be Done Quotes

“She believes you can refuse to participate in certain emotions. “I like hamburgers but I don’t eat them,” she says. “Hamburgers are not an emotion,” says Roz. “Yes they are,” says Charis.”
― Lorrie Moore, See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

“Only hopeless romantics need to be told yet again that love is an illusion, that it dies, that it is for lunatics, addicts, and fools. The rest of us may occasionally like—even love—a little respite from what we know. This is what Hollywood movies, so humanely, have always been for.”
― Lorrie Moore, See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary