All Anita Shreve Quotes
- 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… Bathroom
- I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave? Behave
- Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love.… Arena
- Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you. Ferocious
- I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings. Cannot Ease
- The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the… Accommodating
- Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of… Embrace
- In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and… Along
- There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words. D Think
- the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived. Capture
- I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make. Change
- A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Action
- Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each… Breath
- To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden. Burden
- I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed… Allowed
- Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense… All
- 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 that… All
- Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping. Courage
- A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment… Beginning
- If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance. Dance
- Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and… Breath
- I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured. Been
- The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that… Bear
- To leave, after all, was not the same as being left. All
- And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. Another Room