Anita Shreve Quotes and Sayings
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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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“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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“There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”
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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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“If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.”
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“Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.”
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“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
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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.”
-- Anita Shreve