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Anita Shreve era scrittrice americana.

✵ 7. Ottobre 1946 – 29. Marzo 2018
Anita Shreve: 15 citazioni0 Mi piace

Anita Shreve: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

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Anita Shreve libro The Weight of Water

Origine: The Weight of Water

“Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.”

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Anita Shreve libro Fortune's Rocks

Origine: Fortune's Rocks

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

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Anita Shreve

Origine: Light on Snow

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

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Anita Shreve libro The Pilot's Wife

Origine: The Pilot's Wife

“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.”

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Anita Shreve

Origine: Eden Close

“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.”

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Anita Shreve

Origine: Testimony

“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.”

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Anita Shreve libro The Weight of Water

Origine: The Weight of Water

“To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.”

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Anita Shreve libro The Pilot's Wife

Origine: The Pilot's Wife

“But how do you ever know that you know a person?”

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Anita Shreve libro The Pilot's Wife

Origine: The Pilot's Wife

“I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.”

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Anita Shreve libro The Pilot's Wife

Origine: The Pilot's Wife

“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”

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Anita Shreve

Origine: The Last Time They Met

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