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Anita Shreve Quotes
Best Quotes by Anita Shreve (Top 10)
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.
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I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.
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Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
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A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.
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Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.
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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
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I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.
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More Anita Shreve Quotes
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A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.
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A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
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But how do you ever know that you know a person?
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The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
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Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.
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I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.
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the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
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Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.
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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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And she thought then how strange it was that disaster—the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face—could be at times, such a thing of beauty.
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