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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

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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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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 wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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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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I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
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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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the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
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