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

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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
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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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Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.
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I loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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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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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.
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Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
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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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And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.
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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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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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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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Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
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Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
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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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I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
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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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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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