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Anita Shreve
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“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 ...”
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“... love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.”
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“I've been knitting pretty continuously. It's addictive and it's soothing, and for a few minutes anyway, it makes me feel closer to my mother.”
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“She's a good person to hug, because her body fills up all the empty spaces.”
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“If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.”
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“That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.”
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“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.”
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“It is time that determines the intensity of love.”
Anita Shreve, U.S. writer
(1946)