Anita Shreve Quotes

• I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

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• A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Action

• I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.

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• If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reputation, Trusted

• The enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

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• It is time that determines the intensity of love.

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  Topics in Love

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• To what extent does time distort memory.

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  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Time

• Something inside me squeezes up tight like a sponge that is being wrung out.

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• It’s a wonder any of us make it.

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  Topics in Life

• The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.

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  Topics in Nature

• Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

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  Tags in Lies

• And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

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  Topics in Life

• That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

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  Topics in Love

• To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

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  Topics in Love

• There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

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• To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

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  Topics in Life

Anita Shreve (16)

Birth:	1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Anita Shreve is an American writer. The daughter of an airline pilot and a homemaker, she graduated from Dedham High School, attended Tufts University and began writing while working as a high school teacher in Reading MA.

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