105 Quotes by Anita Shreve

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions – the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions...

The beauty makes her miss Aidan with an ache that feels unbearable. she replays the night they had together, moment by moment. Will she spend her life missing him?

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

It’s a wonder any of us make it.

A calamity, a catastrophe- it changes everything, doesn’t it? It makes you aware that you cannot be indifferent toward your life. You cannot simply give away your life.

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.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it’s going to leave you.

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.

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster – the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face – could be at times, such a thing of beauty.