Quotes by : Elizabeth Strout

society's been drugging its women for years

But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many....

... and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it.

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

I feel almost, then, that I can hear within me the sound of my own heart breaking, the way you could....

Jim. If you have any other outside events, don’t confess them. That’s my advice, okay?”“What....

The appetites of the body were private battles.

Through the trees there was a motion, a person walking on the road. Isabelle watched as the girl - it....

They had grown up on shame it was the nutrient of their soil.

You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.