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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

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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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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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A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
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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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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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But how do you ever know that you know a person?
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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
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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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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.
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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 wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
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Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
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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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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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love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.
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the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
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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 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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