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title: "1 Portrait Painted Quotes By Anita Shreve"
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> [“... 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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/she-suddenly-looks-different-to-olympia-physically-different-as/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-shreve/)

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## Other authors on Portrait Painted

## More by Anita Shreve

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/the-things-that-don-t-happen-to-us-that-we-ll-never-know-didn-t/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/i-guess-that-s-the-point-of-drinking-to-take-all-the-feelings-and/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/webster-as-if-he-s-done-it-every-day-of-his-life-as-if-he-did-it-just/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/it-was-probably-not-so-unusual-to-be-a-different-person-with-a/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-shreve/)

> [Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/children-don-t-heal-as-well-they-change-they-mutate-with-disaster-and/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-shreve/)

> [And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/and-then-she-moved-from-shock-to-grief-the-way-she-might-enter/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-shreve/)

> [“It's a wonder any of us make it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/it-s-a-wonder-any-of-us-make-it/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-shreve/)

> [If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/if-you-re-skating-on-thin-ice-you-might-as-well-dance/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-shreve/)

> [I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/i-have-always-been-faithful-to-you-if-faithful-means-the-experience/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-shreve/)

> [“If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/if-one-has-a-good-reputation-and-trusted-the-rules-can-be-bent-to/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/she-felt-with-the-shiver-the-rare-sensation-that-she-was-exactly/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-shreve/)

> [“She thinks of all that will have to be done to dismantle a life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/she-thinks-of-all-that-will-have-to-be-done-to-dismantle-a-life/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/reunions-are-always-fraught-with-awkward-tensions-the-necessity-to/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-shreve/)

> [Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/like-many-readers-i-am-continually-in-search-of-books-that-allow-me/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-shreve/kind-of-necessary-acceptance-will-form-around-her-like-a-lobster/)

[Anita Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-shreve/)

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