5 Quotes About Anita Shreve

Life has a way of reminding you that if you want to be happy, you must first be happy with yourself. Happiness is not found in things or people, it is an inside job. You have to love yourself enough to be true to who you are and not worry about what others think. If you can look back at your life and see that you have been both kind and honest, then you are doing well Read more

If you always tried to help others or make them happy at the expense of your own happiness, then you are doing poorly.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being...
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left. Anita Shreve
And then she moved from shock to grief the way...
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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. Anita Shreve
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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. Anita Shreve
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The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky. Anita Shreve