Quotes by : Anita Shreve

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in....

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster—the sort of disaster that drained the blood from....

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are....

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

And yet. And yet. If asked - if pressed - Honora would have to say she is strangely content. It's an....

And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and....

Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.

One day a man has a job, and life is full of possibilities. The next day the job and the car are gone,....

You have to do what your heart dictates," Vivian says. "Do you believe that?""Not sure, actually. It's....

I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.