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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

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“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.”

Persons Moments Courses Walks Rooms Thousand Hundred Prepared Tiny Hello

Book:Eden Close: a novel

Source: Eden Close: a novel

“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

“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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The Last Time They MetRelated source material

The Pilot's WifeRelated source material

The Weight Of WaterRelated source material

A Wedding in DecemberRelated source material

A Wedding in December: A NovelRelated source material

All He Ever Wanted: A NovelRelated source material

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