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Anita Shreve is an American author known for her emotionally rich and skillfully narrated works, primarily focusing on themes of family, love, and women's growth.

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All Thinking Ifs Knows Love Is Persons Wells Sometimes Body Causes Enough Giving Happens Might Possibility Seems Struggle Thousand Way Action Breaths

Famous Anita Shreve Quotes

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

Thinking

Book:The Last Time They Met

Source: The Last Time They Met

“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.”

Thinking Men Mind Lost Felt Loss Possibility Breaths Forgotten Connected Passing Passings Mourning Floats Sydney

Book:Body Surfing: A Novel

Source: Body Surfing: A Novel

“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.”

Thinking Sometimes Night Love Is Our Love Retrospective

Book:The Weight Of Water

Source: The Weight Of Water

“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.”

Thinking May Soul Desire Causes Breaths Sentences Midst Pauses

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.”

Thinking Knows Way Happens Action Fall Individual Causes Can Do Party Forever Knowing Changed Son Falling In Love Compass Your Son Wild Party

Author:Anita Shreve

“Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Enough Stories Water Hurt Arms Thousand Ease Slides

Author:Anita Shreve

“Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.”

Thinking Love Inspirational Love Is

Author:Anita Shreve

“I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.”

Thinking Stories Hurt Thousand Ease

Book:The Weight Of Water

Source: The Weight Of Water

About the Author

Born: October 7, 1946
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 50

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