Sue

“I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.”
― Elizabeth Strout

“society's been drugging its women for years”
― Elizabeth Strout, Anything Is Possible

“And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those who do love us.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything

“But I think I know so well the pain we children clutch to our chests, how it lasts our whole lifetime, with longings so large you can’t even weep. We hold it tight, we do, with each seizure of the beating heart: This is mine, this is mine, this is mine.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton