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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

Anita Shreve

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Anita Shreve
Age: 71 †
Born: 1946
Born: October 7
Died: 2018
Died: March 29
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
Experiences
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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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A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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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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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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I loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
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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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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
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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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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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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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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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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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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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love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.
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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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