Quotes by : Elizabeth Strout

He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything.

What young people didn’t know, she thought, lying down beside this man, his hand on her shoulder, her....

This is a story about a mother who loves her daughter. Imperfectly. Because we all love imperfectly.....

I like these experts because they seem decent, and because I feel I know a true sentence when I hear....

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.

I never wrote him. I never saw him again. He was just gone, this dear, dear man, this friend of my soul....

I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to....

People always kept moving, her mother had said, it's the American way. Moving west, moving south, marrying....

And then as the little plane climbed higher and Olive saw spread out below them fields of bright and....