{"author":"Lorrie Moore","author_id":"Lorrie+Moore","total_quotes":74,"quotes":[{"text":"[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["9-11","civilization","disaster","life","normality","resiliency"],"id":3160,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"I had one elegantly folded cookie—a short paper nerve baked in an ear.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["food"],"id":8579,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"So I needed to be womanised. I was losing my sheen.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["humour"],"id":12268,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["morality"],"id":17233,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"The turkeys I eat are raised on farms. They're different. They've signed on the dotted line.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["humour"],"id":20065,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"Where does love go? When something you have taped on the wall falls off, what has happened to the stickum? It has relaxed. It has accumulated an assortment of hairs and fuzzies. It has said 'Fuck it' and given up. It doesn't go anywhere special, it's just gone. Energy is created, and then it is destroyed. So much for the laws of physics. So much for chemistry. So much for not so much.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["love","relationships"],"id":25251,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["big-joys","complicated","joy","joys","life","like-life","living","lorrie-moore","pressure","quote","quotes","realization","short-story","small-joys"],"id":26146,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"I watched my friend Eleanor give birth,' she said. 'Once you've seen a child born, you realize a baby's not much more than a reconstituted ham and cheese sandwich. Just a little anagram of you and what you've been eating for nine months.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["anagram","babies","baby","benna","birth","humor"],"id":27779,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"I would be a genius now,” Quilty has said three times already, “if only I’d memorized Shakespeare instead of Lulu.” “If only,” says Mack. Mack himself would be a genius now if only he had been born a completely different person. But what could you do? He’d read in a magazine once that geniuses were born only to women over thirty; his own mother had been twenty-nine. Damn! So fucking close!","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["genius"],"id":31517,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["adventures-in-love","entitled-in-love","love-story","toxic"],"id":44286,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}