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Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
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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Screenwriter
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Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
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More quotes by Anita Shreve
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.
Anita Shreve
If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Anita Shreve
There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
Anita Shreve
But how do you ever know that you know a person?
Anita Shreve
Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
Anita Shreve
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.
Anita Shreve
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
Anita Shreve
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.
Anita Shreve
Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
Anita Shreve
To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
Anita Shreve
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.
Anita Shreve
That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.
Anita Shreve
I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
Anita Shreve
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.
Anita Shreve
To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
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.
Anita Shreve
I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.
Anita Shreve
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.
Anita Shreve
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.
Anita Shreve
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.
Anita Shreve
