Quotes by : Elizabeth Strout

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

She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are....

But what Tyler longed for was to have The Feeling arrive; when every flicker of light that touched the....

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons....

She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence.

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

Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed....

She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at ths age, to tell her he had pitied....

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

It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men