Memory Quote 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…

— 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 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