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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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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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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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I loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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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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But how do you ever know that you know a person?
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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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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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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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Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
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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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Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.
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