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A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
Anita Shreve
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Anita Shreve
Age: 71 †
Born: 1946
Born: October 7
Died: 2018
Died: March 29
Journalist
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Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
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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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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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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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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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Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
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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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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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But how do you ever know that you know a person?
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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, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
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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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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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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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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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Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
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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.
Anita Shreve
Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
Anita Shreve
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 loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
Anita Shreve
I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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