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Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
Anita Shreve
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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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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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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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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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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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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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Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.
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But how do you ever know that you know a person?
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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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Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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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 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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I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
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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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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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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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the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
Anita Shreve
I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
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