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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.
Anita Shreve
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Anita Shreve
Age: 71 †
Born: 1946
Born: October 7
Died: 2018
Died: March 29
Journalist
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Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
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The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
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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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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 then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.
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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 loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
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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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Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
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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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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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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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the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
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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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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
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The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.
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