Elizabeth Strout Quotes

...for Angie time was as big and round as the sky, and to try to make sense out of it was like trying to make sense of music and God and why the ocean was deep.

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The appetites of the body were private battles.

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They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicated meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.

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

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

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

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