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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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
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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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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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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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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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I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
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Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.
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the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
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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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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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A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
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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.
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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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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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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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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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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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