Lorrie Moore - Like life (1990)

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This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

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His life seemed to be untacking itself, lying loose about him like a blouse.

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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.

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It had all the appeal of a bar of soap in a gas station.

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One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

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He had the kind of mustache a college roommate of hers used to say looked like it had crawled up to find a warm spot to die.

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Love without intimacy, she knew, was an unsung tune. It was all in your head.

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Often when she phoned her parents, they each got on separate extensions and just talked to each other. They discussed money problems and the other's faults with a ferocity they couldn't quite manage face to face.

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For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

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He didn't like to travel much, but he didn't mind it in other people.

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Her gaze dropped to her hands, which had started to move around nervously, independently, like small rodents kept as pets.

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You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.

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She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

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Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

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