“Odd 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.” KnowsWellsPersonsOdd Author: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 that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.” IfsKnowsWayLooksHappensLife IsPartyMinutesCarLateSeriesSpotsExtrasTaxiTrailersTractorsBriefcases Author:Anita Shreve
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWayHappensActionFallIndividualCausesCan DoPartyForeverKnowingChangedSonFalling In LoveCompassYour SonWild Party Author:Anita Shreve
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsPersonsLongTwoEnoughTogetherKnownLoversInevitableOddIntensityGesturesWell KnownDrank Author:Anita Shreve
“But how do you ever know that you know a person?” KnowsPersons Book:The Pilot's Wife Source: The Pilot's Wife
“And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.” KnowsPersonsMightForeverTerriblePromiseCome UpLove SomeoneTerrible Things Author:Anita Shreve
