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“Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured.”
― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

“This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.”
― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

“I used to think that those essentially happy and romantic novels that ended with a wedding were all wrong, that they had left out the most interesting part of the story.”
― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

“Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them, they had changed - they suddenly had more space or a tilt or a door that had not been there before. New people were milling around, the floors undulated, and the sun shone newly, strangely in the windows, or through the now blasted-open ceiling, or else it shone not at all, as if having fled the sky.”
― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs