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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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Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
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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 she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.
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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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I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
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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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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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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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Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
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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 wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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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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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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