Quotes by : Anita Shreve

A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live....

Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one.

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....

Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked,....

A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared.....

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

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love....

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

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