Quotes About Strout

Libby Strout." His mouth and eyes are serious. I don't think I've ever seen him so serious. "You are wanted.

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.

I am the opposite of a snob." Jack laughed a long time. "You think being a reverse snob is not being a snob? Olive, you're a snob.

This is the sea! It was like a foreign country to me. Except, in truth, foreign places always frighten me. I like places that are familiar.

boys. Defense attorneys for the whole crappy world." Bob's new apartment

should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that required respect:

Bernie felt a physical response to this, as though a small wave had just rolled through his chest.

pewter vase with one yellow

Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that's great. But that's not ordinary in a day's work.