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. — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
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… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can. — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die. — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
“When I could talk, I said, "I don't know what I did wrong." Dena sighed, "You care too much.” — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
“I have acute pancreatitis." "I thought it was just average looking.” — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
“He gazed at me. "You've grown up honey." It felt good to hear it. I thought maybe he was right. Then it occurred to… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
“I want him to tell my why, but he doesn't say anything. It seems possible that Matthew is gay and possible that he isn't;… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt. — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later. — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
“My theory was that if you had breasts, boys wanted to have sex with you, which wasn't exactly a big compliment, since they wanted… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street. — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
