“I’ve always been fascinated with this sense that every single person walking down the street has a whole story. …And nobody ever really knows it, because we only tell parts of our story to different people, and oh, I just want to know it so much! I always have, so I make it up.”
Hephzibah Anderson, “Books interview: Elizabeth Strout: ‘All ordinary people are extraordinary,’” The Guardian, Sept 7, 2024.