Elizabeth Strout Short Quotes

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All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know."

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She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people.

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

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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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Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point."

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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.

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Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic—you were made to feel guilty about everything

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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 go away.

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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 they were living it.

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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 it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be.

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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 permission to try to love and receive love.

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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 in it for every person, there wouldn't be a pin for me.

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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.

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