You have family", Bob said. "You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That's called family".

Elizabeth Strout


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Isabelle's moods began to vary with alarming speed. She wondered if she had always been this way and simply failed to notice. No. Good heavens, you noticed something like this: driving to the A

Elizabeth Strout


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She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

Elizabeth Strout

Stichwörter: family-relationships



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The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

Elizabeth Strout

Stichwörter: contentment



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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.

Elizabeth Strout


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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.

Elizabeth Strout


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You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.

Elizabeth Strout

Stichwörter: courage mother mothers standing-your-ground mothers-and-sons



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By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A

Elizabeth Strout

Stichwörter: sadness sunset longing



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No one, to my knowledge, has figured out the secret to love. We love imperfectly, Tyler. We all do. Even Jesus wrestled with that. But I think - I think the ability to receive love is as important as the ability to give it. It's one and the same really.

Elizabeth Strout


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And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into some large and private club that she had not even known existed. Women who miscarried. Society did not care much for them. It really didn't. And the women in the club mostly passed each other silently. People outside the club said, "You'll have another one.

Elizabeth Strout


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