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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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Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
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More quotes by 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
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.
Anita Shreve
the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
Anita Shreve
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.
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
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
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.
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
To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
Anita Shreve
I loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
Anita Shreve
I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
Anita Shreve
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.
Anita Shreve
Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
Anita Shreve
love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.
Anita Shreve
A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.
Anita Shreve
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.
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
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.
Anita Shreve
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
Anita Shreve
