"But after a certain point in a marriage,……" — Elizabeth Strout
"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 more than the years in front of you, things were different."
—
Elizabeth Strout
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
52 Quotes by Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout has 52 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
-
People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is…
-
Traits don't change, states of mind do.
-
The appetites of the body were private battles.
-
The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.
-
In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To…
-
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone.…
-
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point…
-
He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had…
-
I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a…
-
I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted…
-
I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means…
See all 52 quotes by Elizabeth Strout »
More Behind Quotes
This quote is filed under Behind Quotes,
one of 6,713 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies…
— David Arquette
-
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
— Chinua Achebe
-
You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come…
— Margaret Atwood
-
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
— Irving Babbitt
-
Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to…
— Lester Bangs
-
I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
— Stephen Baldwin
-
I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects…
— Christian Bale
-
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
-
I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention…
— Antonio Banderas
-
I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We…
— Javier Bardem
-
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
— Amelia Barr
See all 6,713 Behind Quotes »