“It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.”Elizabeth Strout Source: My Name is Lucy Barton
“He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.”Elizabeth Strout book Olive KitteridgeSource: Olive Kitteridge
“It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me.”Elizabeth Strout book Olive KitteridgeSource: Olive Kitteridge