Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping. Anita Shreve More Quotes by Anita Shreve More Quotes From Anita Shreve Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well. Anita Shreve betrayal love-is character THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives it a fresh, new perspective-moving us through a wrenching gamut of emotions as she does so. A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history. Anita Shreve daughter giving moving love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people. Anita Shreve ordinary love-is people I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings. Anita Shreve hurt stories thinking 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 forever might promise But how do you ever know that you know a person? Anita Shreve persons knows Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane. Anita Shreve two long people 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. Anita Shreve body air blood 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 represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor. Anita Shreve successful struggle character The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky. Anita Shreve law heart fall Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination? Anita Shreve dependent imagination Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature. Anita Shreve loss men thinking I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make. Anita Shreve splits tiny decision the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived. Anita Shreve possibility infinite struggle A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Anita Shreve causes action To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden. Anita Shreve relieved burden giving-up The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are. Anita Shreve car party looks 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. Anita Shreve soul desire thinking To leave, after all, was not the same as being left. Anita Shreve left Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. Anita Shreve exhausting grief
