Heart Quotes by Elizabeth Strout

She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)

— Elizabeth Strout

“She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.”

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“she had not known what one should know: that day after day was unconsciously squandered.”

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“she’d have been throwing out clamshells, most likely.”

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“A yearning stirred in him that was not sexual but a kind of reaching toward her simplicity of form. He”

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“She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence.”

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He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance…

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“She actually moved her neck back and forth as though to shake off the cumbersome weight of the sound, and realized that…

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“She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far. The key to contentment was…

— Elizabeth Strout

“What frightened her the most was the moment of those first notes, because that was when people really listened: She was changing…

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And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there…

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“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a…

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I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really…

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“Silly little plastic belt, made for a skinny pinny; it could barely tie around her. She managed, though - a tiny white…

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