Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.
Melissa BankOlive 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.
Melissa BankIt might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.
Melissa BankIt scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if itโs this way for everyone.
Melissa Bank