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
hurt thinking water
Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.
drinking feelings body
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.
hurt thinking stories
I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
sea rocks desire
In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.
party car looks
The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.
thinking soul desire
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.
mean faithful ifs
I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
rooms tiny hello
A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.
love thinking love-is
Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
dance ice might
If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
feet matter stopping
Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
thinking
There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
lying firsts lost
Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.
games rejection feelings
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.