Lorrie Moore Love Quotations

Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply.

I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost and found love, lost and found and lost love, lost and lost and lost love—some people were having no luck at all. The DJ sounds quick and smooth and after-shaved, the rest of the world a mess by comparison.

The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.

I don't have a love life. I have a like life.

Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.