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.
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to sto… - Anita Shreve
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to sto…
- 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
Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.
If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Anita Shreve
If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations. - Anita Shreve
Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping. - Anita Shreve
Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
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
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.
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-unre… - Anita Shreve
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-unre…
love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people. - Anita Shreve
love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.
Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character repre… - Anita Shreve
Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character repre…
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