Louis Muñoz

“Everything, Artie sat forward as he realized this, everything in the world seemed to him to be filled with unspoken truths. Evelyn Peabody trying to kill herself. Artie himself having thought about such a thing for those few months. All the things in the world that people did not know about one another. Even those very close to them.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say

“It went through his mind faintly: I will not have the free will to prevent whatever is going to happen to me. And his memory of what seemed to him previously to have been a vigorous wonderment at the concept of free will made him smile just slightly now. He left his car and went inside. Going to my fate, he thought. Just going to my fate, that’s all I can do.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say

“his study of history, he had learned about the leaders, and the various groups involved, but he had somehow missed this fact about every single person: that they held within themselves a vast, unknowable universe.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say

“As Artie slowly recalled these memories, it came to him that it did not (really) matter to him that Ken supported the next president (except that it did). Mostly Artie was surprised. He felt the old sadness of what (he thought) was going to happen to the country. And he was surprised at how different people could be. Ken was the opposite of an evil person, and yet the country was headed in a terrible direction, Artie was certain of this. But Ken—and Artie shook his head slowly—was such a good and decent man.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say