Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve
Anita Shreveis an American writer. The daughter of an airline pilot and a homemaker, she graduated from Dedham High School in Massachusetts, attended Tufts University and began writing while working as a high school teacher in Reading, MA. One of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting,was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
love thinking love-is
Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
daughter moving giving
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.
forever promise might
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.
struggle character successful
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.
persons knows
But how do you ever know that you know a person?
struggle infinite possibility
the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
loss men thinking
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.
giving-up burden relieved
To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
causes action
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
struggle loss light
The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
left
To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
grief might way
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
grief exhausting
Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
enough said ifs
I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.