Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
Anita ShreveTags: on-writing
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 ShreveTags: children parenthood choices-and-consequences
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 ShreveOdd, she thought, 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. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.
Anita ShreveTags: love loving knowing-a-person
But how do you ever know that you know a person?
Anita ShreveTags: love
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 ShreveSomething inside me squeezes up tight like a sponge that is being wrung out
Anita ShreveBut after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is to say that they, like all the other couples Kathryn has ever known, live in a state of gentle decline, of being infinitesimally, but not agonizingly, less than they were the day before.
Anita ShreveTags: the-pilot-s-wife
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 ShreveI 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.
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