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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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I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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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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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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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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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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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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But how do you ever know that you know a person?
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And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.
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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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Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
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I loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
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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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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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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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