Elizabeth Strout Quotes

I can't control my frustration.

I have some anger issues.

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

I get so angry. I just go through so many different patches in a game. It's so hard for me to find that balance. It's a tug-of-war all the time.

I'm sorry," she says. I wheel around. "You know, you're a total know-it-all. And it's incredibly rude sometimes; I mean, you're not perfect either, and you act like it's my fault but it's not my fault for being quiet or your fault for being a know-it-all. It's not your problem or my problem; it's their problem. They're the demented ones, not us, so don't take it out on me, because the only thing that holds things together for me is having someone else on the Not Demented Team.

Those who deserve love the least need it the most.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn’t mad at her, but if he was she couldn’t blame him. If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry.

I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.

I think we understand people frustration. We certainly don't want to make it worse.

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

Milo refreshed Rae's drink and said, Talk to her. You need to get it off your chest." Then Milo turned to me and said, "Why don't you try a more subtle approach." "I demand you tell me your troubles," I said to my sister. "You're not as funny as you think you are," Rae replied.

There's nothing on my mind that couldn't be expressed by a long insane outburst of hysterical rage.

I'm alright, nobody worry about me. Why you gotta gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be.

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

She stared at me with concern a few moments longer and then relaxed a little. "Okay. But if you need anything—" "I know, I know. Call on the Love Phone.

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you.

No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.

You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.