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I have a Facebook page and a website. Beyond that, I'm actually a very private person. I'd rather see the focus on the books than on me. — Anita Shreve

The warmth of him always, even on the coldest of nights, as though his inner furnace burned extravagantly. — Anita Shreve

She thinks of all that will have to be done to dismantle a life. — Anita Shreve

It is time that determines the intensity of love. — Anita Shreve

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

One day a man has a job, and life is full of possibilities. The next day the job and the car are gone, and the man cannot look his wife in the eye. — Anita Shreve

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

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it. — Anita Shreve

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. — Anita Shreve

Her pace is furious as she walks along the beach, the surf competing with the noise in her head. — Anita Shreve

It's a wonder any of us make it. — Anita Shreve

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then. — Anita Shreve

Are we, as we age, I wonder, repaid for all our thoughtless gestures — Anita Shreve

As a novelist, I remain interested in the notion of a single reckless act and its consequences. — Anita Shreve

Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one. — Anita Shreve

All the picketers look bored and hot and like they — Anita Shreve

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M. — Anita Shreve

Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations. — Anita Shreve

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

Good shoveling - and then I walk — Anita Shreve

I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings. — Anita Shreve

If you suspect a problem, there is a problem. Don't let them get away with even the very first lie. Be vigilant. — Anita Shreve

Each house has its own signature, unknown to all except the grown children who go back to visit. — Anita Shreve

The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating. — Anita Shreve

I worried constantly. I felt that my son was chipping away at me. This small thing and then that small thing. — Anita Shreve

And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished - that animates him. — Anita Shreve

Something inside me squeezes up tight like a sponge that is being wrung out — Anita Shreve

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

Were you frightened?
One gets tired of being frightened, wouldn't you agree? — Anita Shreve

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. — Anita Shreve

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

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist. — Anita Shreve

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

Love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people. — Anita Shreve

Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true. — Anita Shreve

She's a good person to hug, because her body fills up all the empty spaces. — Anita Shreve

But how do you ever know that you know a person? — Anita Shreve

You reap what you sow. — Anita Shreve

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

Schoolboy, a teenager, with a teenager's innocence and — Anita Shreve

The lying started in the eighth grade. Possibly it had begun earlier, and I simply hadn't noticed. — Anita Shreve

There are more experiences in life than you'd think for which there are no words. — Anita Shreve

-Do you recognize suffering? -I hope I do. -Injustice? -Again, I hope I would. -Then you are a political man. — Anita Shreve

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination? — Anita Shreve

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

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. — Anita Shreve

I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave? — Anita Shreve

Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe. — Anita Shreve

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

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

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left. — Anita Shreve

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping. — Anita Shreve

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you. — Anita Shreve

I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough. — Anita Shreve