Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.

He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.