"Olive Kitteridge" Quotes

You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did.

It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.

I told you. You don't love people at their best, sweetheart. You just love them because you can't help it.

It was not as if she were a creature of the sea, swimming in the dark, her tail flicking out behind her.

She thought: I will not live to hear the end of this story.

Hope was a cancer inside her.

But men are less flexible, my dear. They don't learn in the same way women do.

There were times - and not small ones, either - when Olive had had enough.

But if you had a child, you had to at least try to be there, didn't you?

The problem in his life, as he saw it, was that he had no one to confide in.