Quotes by : Anita Shreve

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

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

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

Later, when she sees the photographs for the first time, she will be surprised at how calm her face looks....

Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately....

Sometimes when I am writing, I feel as though I were not reliving the events I describe here, but rather....

The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.

The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra....

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

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight,....