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love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

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Anita Shreve
Age: 71 †
Born: 1946
Born: October 7
Died: 2018
Died: March 29
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
Extraordinary
Ordinary
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People

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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
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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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Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
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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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Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
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But how do you ever know that you know a person?
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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 have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
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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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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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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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A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
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I loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
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THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives it a fresh, new perspective-moving us through a wrenching gamut of emotions as she does so. A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history.
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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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Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
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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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Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
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