Stan Carey"Her features had fallen but I saw her lift them again, one by one, the way one lifts light porch furniture after a wind."
—Lorrie Moore, "A Gate at the Stairs". Every page has such treats
"I was working on a laugh that was more than my usual pleased grunt, but all I had right now was a kind of blast that culminated in a bleat." —Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
" 'Thanks, maybe later?' I said with the question mark our generation believed meant politeness but which baffled our parents." —Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
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"Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured." —Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs