Elizabeth Strout citations (14 citations)

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Elizabeth Strout: Citations en anglais

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”

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Elizabeth Strout livre Abide with Me

Source: Abide with Me

“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.”

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Elizabeth Strout

Source: My Name is Lucy Barton

“Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”

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Elizabeth Strout livre Olive Kitteridge

Source: Olive Kitteridge

“She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)”

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Elizabeth Strout livre Olive Kitteridge

Source: Olive Kitteridge

“Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.”

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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.”

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Elizabeth Strout livre Olive Kitteridge

Source: Olive Kitteridge

“You will have only one story,” she had said. “You’ll write your one story many ways. Don’t ever worry about story. You have only one.”

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Elizabeth Strout

Source: My Name is Lucy Barton

“But the books brought me things. This is my point. They made me feel less alone.”

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Elizabeth Strout

Source: My Name is Lucy Barton

“Traits don't change, states of mind do.”

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Elizabeth Strout livre Olive Kitteridge

Source: Olive Kitteridge

“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.”

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Elizabeth Strout

Source: My Name is Lucy Barton

“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.”

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Elizabeth Strout livre Olive Kitteridge

Source: 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.”

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Elizabeth Strout livre Olive Kitteridge

Source: Olive Kitteridge

“And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.”

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Elizabeth Strout livre The Burgess Boys

Source: The Burgess Boys

“Because we all love imperfectly.”

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Elizabeth Strout

Source: My Name is Lucy Barton

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