"The key to contentment was to never ask……" — Elizabeth Strout

"The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago."

— Elizabeth Strout

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52 Quotes by Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the…

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