“ There are times now, and my life has changed so completely, that I think back on the early years and I find myself thinking: It was not that bad. Perhaps it was not. But there are times, too—unexpecte… Elizabeth Strout
“ I like these experts because they seem decent, and because I feel I know a true sentence when I hear one now. They do not know what my mother remembered. I don't know what my mother remembered either. Elizabeth Strout
“ And he looked at me then, and with real kindness on his face, and I see now that he recognized what I did not: that in spite of my plenitude, I was lonely. Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in… Elizabeth Strout
“ By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach f… Elizabeth Strout
“ This is not the story of my marriage. I cannot tell that story: I cannot take hold of, or lay out for anyone, the many swamps and grasses and pockets of fresh air and dank air that have gone over us. Elizabeth Strout
“ What young people didn’t know, she thought, lying down beside this man, his hand on her shoulder, her arm; oh, what young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies w… Elizabeth Strout
“ She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we think and what we do. Elizabeth Strout
“ It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men Elizabeth Strout
“ People always kept moving, her mother had said, it's the American way. Moving west, moving south, marrying up, marrying down, getting divorced - but moving... Elizabeth Strout
“ She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at ths age, to tell her he had pitied her for years. Elizabeth Strout
“ Angelina said, "Mom. I don't want you to die. That's the whole thing. You took from me the ability to care for you in your old age, and I wanted to be with you when you died, when you die. Mom. I want… Elizabeth Strout
“ And then as the little plane climbed higher and Olive saw spread out below them fields of bright and tender green in this morning sun, farther out the coastline, the ocean shiny and almost flat, tiny… Elizabeth Strout
