Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton Quotes
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 think and what we do.
... and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it.
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 swamps and grasses and pockets of fresh air and dank air that have gone over us.
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 so long ago, disappeared. This is a New York story too.
But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.
