Anything Is Possible
Elizabeth Strout
Top 10 Best Quotes
“This was the skin that protected you from the world—this loving of another person you shared your life with.”
“To listen to a person is not passive.”
“the sense of apology did not go away; it was a tiring thing to carry. —”
“Annie, who up until this very day had always felt like a child--which is why she could not marry, she could not be a wife--now felt quietly ancient. She thought how for years onstage she had used the image of walking up the dirt road holding her father's hand, the snow-covered fields spread around them, the woods in the distance, joy spilling through her--how she had used this scene to have tears immediately come to her eyes, for the happiness of it, and the loss of it. And now she wondered if it had even happened, if the road had ever been narrow and dirt, if her father had ever held her hand and said that his family was the most important thing to him.”
“society's been drugging its women for years”
“People could surprise you. Not just their kindness, but also their sudden ability to express things the right way.”
“And for a moment Annie wondered at this, that her brother and sister, good, responsible, decent, fair-minded, had never known the passion that caused a person to risk everything they had, everything they held dear heedlessly put in danger—simply to be near the white dazzle of the sun that somehow for those moments seemed to leave the earth behind.”
“What puzzled Abel about life was how much one forgot but then lived with anyway—like phantom limbs, he supposed.”
“They had grown up on shame; it was the nutrient of their soil.”
“How did you ever know? You never knew anything, and anyone who thought they knew anything - well, they were in for a great big surprise.”
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Book Keywords:
shame, listening, memory, feminism, acting, inspirational, acting-life-actress, past, addiction, surprises, closeted, women-empowerment, respect, engagemente, depression, self-awareness
