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1. "The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating." ~ Anita Shreve
2. "Voltage crossed the distance between Sheila and Webster. A current composed of anger and remorse and something else-the last flicker of attraction" ~ Anita Shreve
3. "She's a good person to hug, because her body fills up all the empty spaces." ~ Anita Shreve
4. "And this all causes her to wonder at the disparity between the silk dresses and the natural postures of the body, and to think: How far, HOW FAR, we are willing to go to pretend we are not of the body at all." ~ Anita Shreve
5. "... 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, and for the life of the relationship, however intimate or not, a portrait is painted, with oils or pastels or with black ink or with watercolor, and only at a persons's death can the portraits be considered finished. Perhaps not even at the person's death." ~ Anita Shreve
6. "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 the small of Sheila's back to the nape of her neck.Sheila turns her head, "Go slowly and be careful," she says." ~ Anita Shreve
7. "I brought pictures to the inn, to show you who I'd been, but I saw at once my mistake, the hurt in your eyes, and you said, It hurts that I wasn't with you." ~ Anita Shreve
8. "It is time that determines the intensity of love." ~ Anita Shreve
9. "His arrival detonated two sheepdogs that began barking even before they emerged at a dead run from behind the garage." ~ Anita Shreve
10. "Just wanted to know how you're feeling, As I sit here and think of your progress, It takes a lot of time, the process of healing, I hope this poem helps with some of your stress.I am amazed at your internal strength, Through it all, your positivity remains, You're not deterred by magnitude or length, Nor all your obstacles and physical pains.You have taught me about the meaning of hope, I never hear you fuss or complain, One step at a time, you focus and cope, When you get better, we'll dance in the rain." ~ Anita Shreve
11. "She felt with the shiver the rare sensation that she was exactly where she should be. She was an idea, a memory, one perfect possibility out of an infinite number." ~ Anita Shreve
12. "-Do you recognize suffering? -I hope I do. -Injustice? -Again, I hope I would. -Then you are a political man." ~ Anita Shreve
13. "Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost." ~ Anita Shreve
14. "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 what has happened and the imagining of what is to come." ~ Anita Shreve
15. "Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping." ~ Anita Shreve
16. "There are more experiences in life than you'd think for which there are no words." ~ Anita Shreve
17. "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 (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones." ~ Anita Shreve
18. "But how do you ever know that you know a person?" ~ Anita Shreve
19. "Later, when she sees the photographs for the first time, she will be surprised at how calm her face looks - how steady her gaze, how erect her posture. In the picture her eyes will be slightly closed, and there will be a shadow on her neck. The shawl will be draped around her shoulders, and her hands will rest in her lap. In this deceptive photograph, she will look a young woman who is not at all disturbed or embarrassed, but instead appears to be rather serious. And she wonders if, in its ability to deceive, photography is not unlike the sea, which may offer a benign surface to the observe even as it conceals depths and current below." ~ Anita Shreve
20. "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 this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective." ~ Anita Shreve
21. "the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived." ~ Anita Shreve
22. "I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough." ~ Anita Shreve
23. "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 what a body will do." ~ Anita Shreve
24. "That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love." ~ Anita Shreve
25. "Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane." ~ Anita Shreve
26. "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 passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature." ~ Anita Shreve
27. "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 aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky." ~ Anita Shreve
28. "Altogether, Olympia thinks the sight of herself satisfactory, but not beautiful: a smile is missing, a certain light about the eyes. For how very different a woman will look when she has happiness, Olympia knows, when her beauty emanates from a sense of well-being or from knowing herself to be greatly loved. Even a plain woman will attract the eye if she is happy, while the most elaborately coiffed and bejeweled woman in a room, if she cannot summon contentment, will seem to be merely decorative." ~ Anita Shreve
29. "And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room." ~ Anita Shreve
30. "Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul." ~ Anita Shreve
31. "To leave, after all, was not the same as being left." ~ Anita Shreve
32. "And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty." ~ Anita Shreve
33. "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 of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all." ~ Anita Shreve
34. "She noticed this time that his eyes weren't really gray, but green, and that perhaps they were set too close together. His forehead was awfully high, and when he smiled, his teeth were slightly crooked. And there was something cocky in his manner, but that might just be the salesman in him, she thought. Honora laid these flaws aside as one might overlook a small stain on a beautifully embroidered tablecloth one wanted to buy, only later to discover, when it was on the table and all the guests were seated around it, that the stain had become a beacon, while the beautiful embroidery lay hidden in everybody's laps." ~ Anita Shreve
35. "She thinks of all that will have to be done to dismantle a life." ~ Anita Shreve
36. "I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?" ~ Anita Shreve
37. "It's a wonder any of us make it." ~ Anita Shreve
38. "If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate." ~ Anita Shreve
39. "I worried constantly. I felt that my son was chipping away at me. This small thing and then that small thing." ~ Anita Shreve
40. "A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son." ~ Anita Shreve

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