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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
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Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
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Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.
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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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But how do you ever know that you know a person?
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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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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
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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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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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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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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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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
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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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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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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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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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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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Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
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I loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
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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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