Later, when she sees the photographs for the first time, she will be surprised at how calm her face looks - how steady her gaze, how erect her posture. In the picture her eyes will be slightly closed, and there will be a shadow on her neck. The shawl will be draped around her shoulders, and her hands will rest in her lap. In this deceptive photograph, she will look a young woman who is not at all disturbed or embarrassed, but instead appears to be rather serious. And she wonders if, in its ability to deceive, photography is not unlike the sea, which may offer a benign surface to the observe even as it conceals depths and current below. Anita Shreve
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
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Alberto Moravia
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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Sun Tzu
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
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Jim Butcher
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
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Ashly Lorenzana
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
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Walter Scott
More Quotes By Anita Shreve
To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
And she thought then how strange it was that disaster–the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face–could be at times, such a thing of beauty.
The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.
Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
