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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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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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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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I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
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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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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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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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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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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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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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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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Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.
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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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A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
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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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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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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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