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

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

- Anita Shreve

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

- 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…

- Anita Shreve

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

- 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…

- Anita Shreve

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

- 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