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I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.

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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I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
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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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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
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Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.
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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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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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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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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
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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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But how do you ever know that you know a person?
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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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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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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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