Anita Shreve Quotes

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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.

  Anita Shreve

  Sweet, Memories, Kissing

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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.

  Anita Shreve

  Games, Rejection, Feelings

  Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

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• There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

  Anita Shreve

  Thinking

  Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

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• Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

  Anita Shreve

  Feet, Stopping, Matter

  Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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

  Anita Shreve

  Love Is, People, Ordinary

  Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

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• 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

  Rooms, Tiny, Hello

  Anita Shreve (1989). “Eden Close: a novel”, Harcourt

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• If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

  Anita Shreve

  Dance, Skating On Thin Ice, Might

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• I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.

  Anita Shreve

  Hurt, Thinking, Stories

  Anita Shreve (2014). “The Weight Of Water”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.

  Anita Shreve

  Children, Disaster, Heal

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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.

  Anita Shreve

  Lying, Firsts, Lost

  Anita Shreve (1999). “Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

  Anita Shreve

  Decision, Tiny, Splits

  Anita Shreve (2014). “Light On Snow”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.

  Anita Shreve

  Party, Car, Looks

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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.

  Anita Shreve

  Struggle, Character, Successful

  Anita Shreve (2003). “All He Ever Wanted: A Novel”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

  Anita Shreve

  Imagination, Dependent

  Anita Shreve (2007). “A Wedding in December: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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• Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

  Anita Shreve

  Love, Inspirational, Love Is

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• 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

  Odd, Wells, Persons

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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.

  Anita Shreve

  Family, Memories, School

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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.

  Anita Shreve

  Struggle, Loss, Light

  Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

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• A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.

  Anita Shreve

  Falling In Love, Party, Son

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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.

  Anita Shreve

  Fall, Heart, Law

  Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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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.

  Anita Shreve

  Forever, Promise, Might

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• A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

  Anita Shreve

  Causes, Action

  Anita Shreve (2009). “Testimony”, p.198, Hachette UK

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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.

  Anita Shreve

  Good Luck, Punishment, Ideas

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• I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.

  Anita Shreve

  Mean, Faithful, Has Beens

  Anita Shreve (2001). “The Last Time They Met”

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• And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

  Anita Shreve

  Grief, Might, Way

  Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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