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

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

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.

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.