Lorrie Moore Quotes

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.

You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.

He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of water evaporating in the sun, shrinking and shrinking until at last he wasn’t there anymore.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.

… where they will vanish in the night and fog.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

So much of my work has been about disappearing.

Sometimes the wheels just fall off a relationship.

I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

Religion is always falling apart.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.

That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.

Everything that disappears/Disappears as if returning somewhere

the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments

You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

Things seem to fall apart inevitably.

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.