Lorrie Moore Quotes

Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

What had seemed like love was betrayal

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.

But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.

Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.

Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

I love you,” Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn’t. “That’s what you all keep saying,” I answered. “But it doesn’t seem to get me any happier.

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.