"She remembered was hope was, and this was……" — Elizabeth Strout
"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 the shiny water, the way the plane was plowing forward to a place new, and where she was needed."
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Elizabeth Strout
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52 Quotes by Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout has 52 quotes on this site.
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The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
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People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is…
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Traits don't change, states of mind do.
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The appetites of the body were private battles.
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The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.
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In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To…
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By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone.…
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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point…
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He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had…
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I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a…
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I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted…
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I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means…
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without…
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I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the…
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I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car,…
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive…
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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die…
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for…
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