To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game. — 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
