Quotes About Elizabeth Strout

This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true.

'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.

Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people having supper." "Exactly," said Bunny. "That's a date.

Well, widow-comforter, how is she?" Olive spoke in the dark from the bed. "Struggling," he said. "Who isn't?

It is true she doesn't exercise, her cholesterol is sky-high. But all that is only a good excuse, hiding how it's her soul, really, that is wearing out.

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.

thought of the ants that were still going about trying to get their sand wherever they needed it to go. They seemed almost heartbreaking to him, in their tininess and their resilience.

True authenticity, I'd decided, required an absolute, nearly spiritual denial of the audience, or even of the possibility of being watched; but here, something true, something real, had quickly morphed into something fake.

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.

she'd have been throwing out clamshells, most likely.

why they were the anal, narcissistic, self-absorbed freaks that they were

David in really concrete ways. He slipped and slid in my mind, like he would not hold still. I could not understand it.

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

pewter vase with one yellow

It was shame that swiped across her soul, like these windshield wipers before her: two large black long fingers, relentless and rhythmic in their chastisement.

I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.