Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“It was probably not so unusual to be a different person with a different man, for all parts were authentically within, waiting… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Odd how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love-soaked, drenched in love-only to discover later… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator,… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The 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… — Anita Shreve Copy Share
I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing… — Anita Shreve Copy Share
“Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his fingers from… — Anita Shreve Copy Share
“It was probably not so unusual to be a different person with a different man, for all parts were authentically within, waiting to be… — Anita Shreve Copy Share
Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations. — Anita Shreve Copy Share
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. — Anita Shreve Copy Share
I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured. — Anita Shreve Copy Share
“If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.” — Anita Shreve Copy Share
“She felt with the shiver the rare sensation that she was exactly where she should be. She was an idea, a memory, one perfect… — Anita Shreve Copy Share
Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the… — Anita Shreve Copy Share
Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe. — Anita Shreve Copy Share
“kind of necessary acceptance will form around her, like a lobster making its new shell, one that will be soft and easily breakable in… — Anita Shreve Copy Share
