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

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

It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.

The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

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

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.