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Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

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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 loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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