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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

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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
Another
Might
Way
Shock
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Grief
Moved
Room
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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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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I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
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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 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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Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
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