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Oh William! QUOTES

Oh William! QUOTES

1 " Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

2 " Mensen zijn eenzaam, dat wil ik hier maar mee zeggen. Veel mensen kunnen niet tegen degenen die ze goed kennen zeggen wat ze misschien wel zouden willen zeggen. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

3 " Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

4 " I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

5 " This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

6 " A friend had said to me once, “Whenever I don’t know what to do, I watch what I am doing.” And what I was doing that year was leaving, even though I had not yet left. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

7 " Grief is such a—oh, it is such a solitary thing; this is the terror of it, I think. It is like sliding down the outside of a really long glass building while nobody sees you. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

8 " But we are all mythologies, mysterious. We are all mysteries, is what I mean.

This may be the only thing in this world I know to be true. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

9 " People are lonely, is my point here. Many people can’t say to those they know well what it is they feel they might want to say. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

10 " Once every so often—at the very most—I think someone actually chooses something. Otherwise we’re following something—we don’t even know what it is but we follow it, "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

11 " Lucy, I married you because you were filled with joy. You were just filled with joy. And when I finally realized what you came from—when we went to your house that day to meet your family and tell them we were getting married, Lucy, I almost died at what you came from. I had no idea that was what you came from. And I kept thinking, But how is she what she is? How could she come from this and have so much exuberance?” He shook his head very slowly. “And I still don’t know how you did it. You’re unique, Lucy. You’re a spirit. You know how the other day at that barracks when you thought you were flipping between universes or something, well, I believe you, Lucy, because you are a spirit. There has never been anyone in the world like you.” In a moment he added, “You steal people’s hearts, Lucy. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

12 " Watching her, I felt she was telling the truth. There was something about her that seemed deeply—almost fundamentally—comfortable inside herself, the way I think a person is when they have been loved by their parents. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

13 " But when I think Oh William!, don’t I mean Oh Lucy! too? Don’t I mean Oh Everyone, Oh dear Everybody in this whole wide world, we do not know anybody, not even ourselves! — Except a little tiny, tiny bit we do. — But we are all mythologies, mysterious. We are all mysteries, is what I mean. — This may be the only thing in the world I know to be true. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

14 " thought to myself: William is the only person I ever felt safe with. He is the only home I ever had. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

15 " To deny my husband any chance of comforting me—oh, it was an unspeakably awful thing. And I had not known. This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

16 " oh, I can’t really explain what I thought! But it was very strange to think that the children I had were already—in just one generation—so different, so very different, from me and what I had come from. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

17 " on some very fundamental level, I feel invisible in the world. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

18 " What she could not possibly have known was that even as I stood before all those people and read and answered questions, I still felt oddly—but very truly—invisible. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

19 " And he said, “Lucy. You deal with everything. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!

20 " is still true in my case, because these deprivations never leave us. "

― Elizabeth Strout , Oh William!