“But the books brought me things. This is my point. They made me feel less alone.” Elizabeth Strout Source: My Name is Lucy Barton Books , Feeling
“You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.” Elizabeth Strout Source: My Name is Lucy Barton Suffering , Time
“But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.” Elizabeth Strout book Olive Kitteridge Source: Olive Kitteridge Marriage , Fight