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But how do you ever know that you know a person?
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Anita Shreve
Age: 71 †
Born: 1946
Born: October 7
Died: 2018
Died: March 29
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Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
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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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THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives it a fresh, new perspective-moving us through a wrenching gamut of emotions as she does so. A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history.
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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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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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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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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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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
Anita Shreve
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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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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love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.
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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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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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the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
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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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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
Anita Shreve
I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
Anita Shreve
Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
Anita Shreve
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.
Anita Shreve
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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