His arrival detonated two sheepdogs that began barking…

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

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

“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

“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

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

— Anita Shreve

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

— Anita Shreve

“It's a wonder any of us make it.”

— Anita Shreve

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

— Anita Shreve

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

— Anita Shreve

“If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.”

— Anita Shreve

“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

“She thinks of all that will have to be done to dismantle a life.”

— Anita Shreve

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

Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.

— Anita Shreve

“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