“... she suddenly looks different to Olympia, physically different, as though a portrait has been alterred. And Olympia thinks that possibly such adjustments might have to be made for everyone she knows. Upon meeting a person, a sketch is formed,… — 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
