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

Anita Shreve


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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


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She noticed this time that his eyes weren't really gray, but green, and that perhaps they were set too close together. His forehead was awfully high, and when he smiled, his teeth were slightly crooked. And there was something cocky in his manner, but that might just be the salesman in him, she thought. Honora laid these flaws aside as one might overlook a small stain on a beautifully embroidered tablecloth one wanted to buy, only later to discover, when it was on the table and all the guests were seated around it, that the stain had become a beacon, while the beautiful embroidery lay hidden in everybody's laps.

Anita Shreve


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

Anita Shreve


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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


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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


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Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.

Anita Shreve

Tag: grief



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I worried constantly. I felt that my son was chipping away at me. This small thing and then that small thing.

Anita Shreve


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

Anita Shreve

Tag: nature



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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


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