Quotes by Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

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She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we thin — Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
... and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it. — Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
This is not the story of my marriage. I cannot tell that story: I cannot take hold of, or lay out for anyone, the many s — Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
And he looked at me then, and with real kindness on his face, and I see now that he recognized what I did not: that in s — Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
I like these experts because they seem decent, and because I feel I know a true sentence when I hear one now. They do no — Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
There are times now, and my life has changed so completely, that I think back on the early years and I find myself think — Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
I feel almost, then, that I can hear within me the sound of my own heart breaking, the way you could hear outside in the — Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
I think I know so well the pain we children clutch to our chests, how it lasts our whole lifetime, with longings so larg — Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
I never wrote him. I never saw him again. He was just gone, this dear, dear man, this friend of my soul in the hospital — Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind c — Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton