Anita Shreve Short Quotes

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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.

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I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?

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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 single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

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Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

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The enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

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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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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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That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

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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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I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.

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I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

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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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To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

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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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Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

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Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

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