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Anita Shreve Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost."

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

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



Anita Shreve Quotes: "Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping."

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




Anita Shreve Quotes: "I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective."

I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.



Anita Shreve Quotes: "If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance."

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



Anita Shreve Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you."

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



Anita Shreve Quotes: "That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love."

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.



Anita Shreve Quotes: "I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings."

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



Anita Shreve Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting."

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.




Anita Shreve Quotes: "To leave, after all, was not the same as being left."

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.



Anita Shreve Quotes: "And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room."

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



Anita Shreve Quotes: "I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?"

I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?



Anita Shreve Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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

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



Anita Shreve Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "But how do you ever know that you know a person?"

But how do you ever know that you know a person?



Anita Shreve Quotes: "the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived."

the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.



Anita Shreve Quotes: "I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough."

I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.



Anita Shreve Quotes: "To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden."

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.



Anita Shreve Quotes: "I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured."

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



Anita Shreve Quotes: "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."

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

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



Anita Shreve Quotes: "Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?"

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



Anita Shreve Quotes: "Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations."

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



Anita Shreve Quotes: "love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people."

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



Anita Shreve Quotes: "And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished - that animates him."

And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished - that animates him.



Anita Shreve Quotes: "One day a man has a job, and life is full of possibilities. The next day the job and the car are gone, and the man cannot look his wife in the eye."

One day a man has a job, and life is full of possibilities. The next day the job and the car are gone, and the man cannot look his wife in the eye.



Anita Shreve Quotes: "Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one."

Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one.



Anita Shreve Quotes: "Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true."

Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.



Anita Shreve Quotes: "You have to do what your heart dictates, " Vivian says. "Do you believe that?""Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?"

You have to do what your heart dictates, " Vivian says. "Do you believe that?""Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?



Anita Shreve Quotes: "The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating."

The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.