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.
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I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
Anita ShreveThe 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.
His arrival detonated two sheepdogs that began barking even before they emerged at a dead run from behind the garage.
Anita Shreve-Do you recognize suffering? -I hope I do. -Injustice? -Again, I hope I would. -Then you are a political man.
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
Anita ShreveTags: life lesson leaving anita-shreve the-pilot-s-wife
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
Anita ShreveTags: life death anita-shreve the-pilot-s-wife
Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
Anita ShreveTags: life pain emotion grief anita-shreve the-pilot-s-wife physical
I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.
Anita ShreveTags: love enough anita-shreve the-pilot-s-wife
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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