When you lie to someone you love—and I did love Charles—let alone when you lie so often that the lie seems truer than the actual truth, you lose the only thing that matters: the possibility of real connection.
“Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”
― Olive Kitteridge
― Olive Kitteridge
“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.”
― Olive Kitteridge
― Olive Kitteridge
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