Best Elizabeth Strout Quotes
- I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves… Give
- He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he… Calling
- It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin… Continued
- Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she… Arriving
- And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a… Ago
- You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went… Along
- Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or… Afloat
- Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people… Annoyed
- Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything Boxes
- But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were… Behind
- Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that… Joyful
- All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125) All
- She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148) Alone
- Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179) All
- Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For… Became
- He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not… Acquaintance
- Each of his son's had been his favorite child. Been
- She remembered was hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats plowed… Boat
- There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had… Aged
- I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we… Anybody
- You have family", Bob said. "You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you… Apparently
- And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is. Always Becoming
- Bullies are just frightened people. Bullies
- My parents were very, very, very strict. Parents
- I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old.… Dirt