Anita ShreveSometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell th… ▶371ThoughtTime
Anita ShreveIf you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.371Reading
Anita ShreveThe 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 tracto… ▶351Life
Anita ShreveGood 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 incompreh… ▶356Thought
Anita ShreveLove is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.335LoveThought
Anita ShreveI have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured. ✨ Anita Shreve (2001). The Last Time They Met359HopeLifeTime
Anita ShreveIs imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination? ✨ Anita Shreve (2007). A Wedding in December: A Novel, Little, Brown271LifeReading
Anita ShreveAnd then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. ✨ Anita Shreve (1998). The Pilot's Wife, Little, Brown326Sadness
Anita ShreveOnce 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 (1999). Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel, p.133, … ▶273LoveReadingTime
Anita Shrevethe enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived. ✨ Anita Shreve (2002). The Last Time They Met, Large Print Press328LifeTime
Anita ShreveAnd 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… ▶3410ThoughtTime
Anita ShreveIn the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterli… ▶328Time
Anita ShreveSydney 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 h… ▶317ReadingThought
Anita ShreveA single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. ✨ Anita Shreve (2009). Testimony, p.198, Hachette UK241Life
Anita ShreveI loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough. ✨ Anita Shreve (1998). The Pilot's Wife, Little, Brown3210Love
Anita ShreveI thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make. ✨ Anita Shreve (2014). Light On Snow, p.65, Hachette UK181LifeThought
Anita ShreveAmong other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. ✨ Anita Shreve (1998). The Pilot's Wife, Little, Brown247Sadness
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.247Thought
Anita ShreveLove 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 t… ▶171Love
Anita ShreveTo be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.227LoveThought
Anita ShreveSometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping. ✨ Anita Shreve (1998). The Pilot's Wife, Little, Brown205ThoughtTime
Anita ShreveBut how do you ever know that you know a person? ✨ Anita Shreve (1998). The Pilot's Wife, Little, Brown216Sadness
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 s… ▶163LifeLoveTime
Anita ShreveI wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave? ✨ The Weight Of Water. Book by Anita Shreve, 1997.229Reading
Anita ShreveA 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 h… ▶229LifeLovePolitics
Anita ShreveTo leave, after all, was not the same as being left. ✨ Anita Shreve (1998). The Pilot's Wife, Little, Brown218Sadness
Anita ShreveOlympia 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… ▶208LifeThought
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 … ▶164HopeHumanityLove
Anita ShreveTo 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 th… ▶143HumorTime
Anita ShreveAnd 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.2110Love
