Quotes by Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve

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.

Falling In Love

Party

Son

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.

Forever

Might

Promise

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

Grief

Might

Way

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

Knows

Persons

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

Children

Disaster

Heal

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

Ideas

Punishment

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

Faithful

Has Beens

Mean

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.

Love Is

Night

Thinking

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

Hurt

Stories

Thinking

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

Behave

Ifs

Wonder

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Games

Giving

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Grief

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Heal

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Ideas

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Imagination

Infinite

Knows

Left

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Long

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Lost

Love Is

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Quotes by Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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