Anita Shreve Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
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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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“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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“love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.”
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“And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.”
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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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“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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“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.”
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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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“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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“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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“The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.”
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“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”
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“In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.”
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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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“Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.”
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“Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.”
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“I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.”
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“The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.”
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“Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ...”
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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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