Tagged: Elizabeth Strout.
December 22nd, 2012
‘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.’
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

∞04:30 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩14
[Quote] [Book Quote] [2008] [Olive Kitteridge] [Elizabeth Strout]
June 30th, 2012
You couldn’t make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn’t go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

∞06:03 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩120
[Book Quote] [Elizabeth Strout] [Quote] [Olive Kitteridge] [2008] [favourite]
May 9th, 2012
People like to think the younger generation’s job is to steer the world to hell. But it’s never true, is it? They’re hopeful and good - and that’s how it should be.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

∞12:56 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩7
[Book Quote] [Elizabeth Strout] [Olive Kitteridge] [Quote] [2008]
April 14th, 2012
But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable.
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout

∞11:05 am, by lostinthesounds ∩18
[Amy and Isabelle] [Book Quote] [Elizabeth Strout] [Quote] [1998] [favourite]
April 8th, 2012
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.
Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout

∞04:36 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩25
[Abide with Me] [Book Quote] [Elizabeth Strout] [Quote] [2006]
February 9th, 2012
At the end of the day he said “I will take care of you,” his voice thick with emotion. She stood before him and nodded. He zipped her coat for her.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

∞03:42 am, by lostinthesounds ∩15
[Book Quote] [Elizabeth Strout] [Olive Kitteridge] [Qutoe] [2008]
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