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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
Journalist
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Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
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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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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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Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
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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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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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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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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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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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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
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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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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 have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
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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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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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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
Anita Shreve
the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
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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