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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “All these unrecorded lives, and people just live them.”

201. “All these unrecorded lives, and people just live them.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “I know faintly, even now, that I have embarrassed myself, and it always comes back to the feeling of childhood, that huge pieces of knowledge about the world were missing that can never be replaced.”

202. “I know faintly, even now, that I have embarrassed myself, and it always comes back to the feeling of childhood, that huge pieces of knowledge about the world were missing that can never be replaced.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “That was about the same thing that every story Lucy and I have shared is about. People suffer. They live, they have hope, they even have love, and they still suffer. Everyone does. Those who think they’ve not suffered are lying to themselves.”

203. “That was about the same thing that every story Lucy and I have shared is about. People suffer. They live, they have hope, they even have love, and they still suffer. Everyone does. Those who think they’ve not suffered are lying to themselves.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those who do love us.”

204. “And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those who do love us.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “We all live with people – and places – and things – that we have given great weight to. But we are weightless, in the end.”

205. “We all live with people – and places – and things – that we have given great weight to. But we are weightless, in the end.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “When Chrissie left for college, then Becka the next year, I thought – and it’s not an expression, I’m saying the truth – I did think I would die.”

206. “When Chrissie left for college, then Becka the next year, I thought – and it’s not an expression, I’m saying the truth – I did think I would die.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “At times these days – rarely, very rarely, but at times – I feel like I’ve become, oh, just a tiny – tiny – bit better as a person, and it makes me sick that Henry didn’t get any of that from me.”

207. “At times these days – rarely, very rarely, but at times – I feel like I’ve become, oh, just a tiny – tiny – bit better as a person, and it makes me sick that Henry didn’t get any of that from me.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “What is it like to be you? I need to say: This is the question that has made me a writer; always that deep desire to know what it feels like to be a different person.”

208. “What is it like to be you? I need to say: This is the question that has made me a writer; always that deep desire to know what it feels like to be a different person.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Lucy said, looking at him now, “My point is that every person on this earth is so complicated. Bob, we’re also complicated, and we match up for a moment – or maybe a lifetime – with somebody because we feel that we are connected to them. And we are. But we’re not in a certain way because nobody can go into the crevices of another’s mind, even the person can’t go into the crevices of their own mind, and we live – all of us – as though we can.”

209. “Lucy said, looking at him now, “My point is that every person on this earth is so complicated. Bob, we’re also complicated, and we match up for a moment – or maybe a lifetime – with somebody because we feel that we are connected to them. And we are. But we’re not in a certain way because nobody can go into the crevices of another’s mind, even the person can’t go into the crevices of their own mind, and we live – all of us – as though we can.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Who knows why people are different? We are born with a certain nature, I think. And then the world takes its swings at us.”

210. “Who knows why people are different? We are born with a certain nature, I think. And then the world takes its swings at us.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “But here was the world, screeching its beauty at her day after day, and she felt grateful for it.”

211. “But here was the world, screeching its beauty at her day after day, and she felt grateful for it.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Olive’s private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as “big bursts” and “little bursts.” Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee’s, let’s say, or the waitress at Dunkin’ Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.”

212. “Olive’s private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as “big bursts” and “little bursts.” Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee’s, let’s say, or the waitress at Dunkin’ Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.”

— Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout Quote: “We are all in lockdown, all the time. We just don’t know it, that’s all. But we do the best we can. Most of us are just trying to get through.”

213. “We are all in lockdown, all the time. We just don’t know it, that’s all. But we do the best we can. Most of us are just trying to get through.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Tell me every single thing. And don’t leave anything out.”

214. “Tell me every single thing. And don’t leave anything out.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “I have never seen anything as beautiful as those girls. These women. My daughters!”

215. “I have never seen anything as beautiful as those girls. These women. My daughters!”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “People are lonely, is my point here. Many people can’t say to those they know well what it is they feel they might want to say.”

216. “People are lonely, is my point here. Many people can’t say to those they know well what it is they feel they might want to say.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “Bob was a sin-eater –.”

217. “Bob was a sin-eater –.”

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Elizabeth Strout Quote: “He thought of all the people in the world who felt they’d been saved by a city. He was one of them. Whatever darkness leaked its way in, there were always lights on in different windows here, each light like a gentle touch on his shoulder saying, Whatever is happening, Bob Burgess, you are never alone.”

218. “He thought of all the people in the world who felt they’d been saved by a city. He was one of them. Whatever darkness leaked its way in, there were always lights on in different windows here, each light like a gentle touch on his shoulder saying, Whatever is happening, Bob Burgess, you are never alone.”

— Elizabeth Strout

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