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
I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit,… — 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
“I can see the years that Thomas and I have had together, the fragility of that life. The creation of a marriage,… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.” — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“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 Image
