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  1. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.
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  2. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    I feel his lack of love for me.
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  3. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    Things, I know, stiffen and shift in memory, become what they never were before. As when an army takes over a country. Or a summer yard goes scarlet with fall and its venous leaves. One summons the years of the past largely by witchcraft-a whore's arts, collage and brew, eye of newt, heart of horse. Still, the house of my childhood is etched in my memory like the shape of the mind itself: a house-shaped mind-why not? It was this particular mind out of which I ventured-for any wild danger or sentimental stance or lunge at something faraway. But it housed every seedling act. I floated above it, but close, like a figure in a Chagall.
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  4. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    They looked like frogs who'd been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs.
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  5. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    I would look out upon the wildflowers, the mulch of swamps and leaves, the spring mosses greening on the rocks, or the boulderous mountains of street-black snow, whatever season it happened to be- my mittens clotted with ice, or my hands grimy with marsh mud- and from the back of my larynx I'd send part of my voice out toward the horizon and part of it straight up toward the sky. There must have been some pain in me. I wanted to howl and fly and break apart.
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  6. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.
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  7. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe.
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  8. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    I cried for everyone and for all the scrabbly, funny love one sent out into the world like some hit song that enters space and bounds off to another galaxy, a tune so pretty you think the words are true, you do!
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  9. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    I looked in vain for LaRoue, my cruelty toward her now in me like a splinter, where it would sit for years in my helpless memory, the skin growing around; what else can memory do? It can do nothing; It pretends to eat the shrapnel of your acts, yet it cannot swallow or chew.
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  10. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone; she refused to occupy the features of her face.
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  11. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really.
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  12. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots."
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