Lorrie Moore Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

  Lorrie Moore

  Heart, Eye, Phones

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jan 21, 2012

• You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.

  Lorrie Moore

  Heart, House, Belief

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jun 09, 2011

• (Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

  Lorrie Moore

  Country, Heart, Despair

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.134, Faber & Faber

• You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this, it would turn away at something greater, then more and more until your heart stayed averted, immobile, your imagination redistributed away from the world and back only toward the bad maps of yourself, the sour pools of your own pulse, your own tiny, mean, and pointless wants.

  Lorrie Moore

  Heart, Mean, Blood

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Birds of America: Stories”, p.136, Vintage

• I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with other people and their speech, friends I believed I was devoted to, people whose lives I can simply guess at now, that it gives me the impression I am simply a collection of them, that they all existed for themselves, but had inadvertently formed me, then vanished. But, what: Should I have been expected to create my own self, out of nothing, out of thin, thin air and alone?

  Lorrie Moore

  Heart, Thinking, Air

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