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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 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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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 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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Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.
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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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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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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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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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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
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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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Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
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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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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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love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.
Anita Shreve
To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
Anita Shreve
I loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
Anita Shreve
the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
Anita Shreve
I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
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