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Top 200 Elizabeth Strout Quotes (2024 Update)

Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Because in February the days were really getting longer and you could see it, if you really looked. You could see how at the end of each day the world seemed cracked open and the extra light made its way across the stark trees, and promised. It promised, that light, and what a thing that was.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Traits don’t change, states of mind do.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “You couldn’t make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn’t go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “I’m so interested in the fact that we really don’t know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don’t, we really don’t.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “In case you haven’t noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can’t stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it’s okay we did whatever we did.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “But I think I know so well the pain we children clutch to our chests, how it lasts our whole lifetime, with longings so large you can’t even weep. We hold it tight, we do, with each seizure of the beating heart: This is mine, this is mine, this is mine.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “It’s tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you’re not quite there and you’re redoing it and redoing it and there’s a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “I think our job – maybe even our ‘duty’ – is to – To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “A person gets tired. The mind or the soul or whatever word we have for whatever is not just the body gets tired, and this, I have decided, is – usually, mostly – nature helping us. I was getting tired. I think – but I don’t know – that he was getting tired too.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “You get used to things, he thinks, without getting used to things.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “The appetites of the body were private battles.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “This was the skin that protected you from the world – this loving of another person you shared your life with.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “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.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “I don’t want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the story within the realm of being psychologically and emotionally true.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “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.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “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.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Each of his son’s had been his favorite child.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Because we all love imperfectly.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “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.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “In a way, I’m very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It’s the oldest state, and it’s the whitest state.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “My mother told me in the hospital that day that I was not like my brother and sister: “Look at your life right now. You just went ahead and... did it.” Perhaps she meant that I was already ruthless. Perhaps she meant that, but I don’t know what my mother meant.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “But once in a while I see a child crying with the deepest of desperation, and I think it is one of the truest sounds a child can make.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “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.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “My more tenderhearted daughter, Becka, said to me during this time, “Mom, when you write a novel you get to rewrite it, but when you live with someone for twenty years, that is the novel, and you can never write that novel with anyone again!”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “To listen to a person is not passive. To really listen is active, and Dottie had really listened.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “What puzzled Abel about life was how much one forgot but then lived with anyway – like phantom limbs, he supposed.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “There was an old African proverb Dottie had read one day that said, “After a man eats, he becomes shy.” And Dottie thought of that now with Shelly. Shelly was like the man in the proverb; having satisfied her needs, she was ashamed. She had confided more than she had wanted to, and now Dottie was somehow to blame.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “But here they were, and Olive pictured two slices of Swiss cheese pressed together, such holes they brought to this union – what pieces life took out of you. Her eyes were closed, and throughout her tired self swept waves of gratitude – and regret. She pictured the sunny room, the sun-washed wall, the bayberry outside. It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Olive can understand why Chris has never bothered having many friends. He is like her that way, can’t stand the blah-blah-blah.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “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 wanted that.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic – you were made to feel guilty about everything.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “I kept thinking how the five of us had had a really unhealthy family, but I saw then too how our roots were twisted so tenaciously around one another’s hearts.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “This is Lucy.” She added, almost playfully, “Lucy comes from nothing.” I took no offense, and really, I take none now. But I think: No one in this world comes from nothing.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Dottie was not a woman to complain, having been taught by her decent Aunt Edna one summer – it seemed like a hundred years ago, and practically was – that a complaining woman was like pushing dirt beneath the fingernails of God, and this was an image Dottie had never been able to fully dislodge.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “And for a moment Annie wondered at this, that her brother and sister, good, responsible, decent, fair-minded, had never known the passion that caused a person to risk everything they had, everything they held dear heedlessly put in danger – simply to be near the white dazzle of the sun that somehow for those moments seemed to leave the earth behind.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “The leaves were half-gone now. The Norway maples still hung on to their yellow, but most of the orangey-red of the sugar maples had found their way to the ground, leaving behind the stark branches that seemed to hang like stuck-out arms and tiny fingers, skeletal and bleak.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Everyone thinks they know everything, and no one knows a damn thing.”
Elizabeth Strout Quote: “But Lucy loved them, she loved her mother, and her mother loved her! We’re all just a mess, Angelina, trying as hard as we can, we love imperfectly, Angelina, but it’s okay.”
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