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Anita Shreve Inspirational Quotes (40)

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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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the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
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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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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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Odd 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.
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Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
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Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
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But how do you ever know that you know a person?
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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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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
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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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THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives it a fresh, new perspective-moving us through a wrenching gamut of emotions as she does so. A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history.
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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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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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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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