Lorrie Moore Want Quotations

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.

You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex?

I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.

I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him your bicep.