“He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.”
― Olive Kitteridge
― Olive Kitteridge
“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Each of his son's had been his favorite child.”
― Olive Kitteridge
― Olive Kitteridge
“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.”
― Olive Kitteridge
― Olive Kitteridge
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