“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”
― Anita Shreve, quote from The Last Time They Met
“I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.”
― Anita Shreve, quote from The Last Time They Met
“That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.”
― Anita Shreve, quote from The Last Time They Met
“The weight of his losses finally too much to bear.
But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”
― Anita Shreve, quote from The Last Time They Met
“It was probably not so unusual to be a different person with a different man, for all parts were authentically within, waiting to be coaxed out by one person or another”
― Anita Shreve, quote from The Last Time They Met
“She felt with the shiver the rare sensation that she was exactly where she should be. She was an idea, a memory, one perfect possibility out of an infinite number.”
― Anita Shreve, quote from The Last Time They Met
Anita Shreve
Born place: in Dedham, Massachusetts
Born date October 7, 1946
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“Stop being alive, and start living.”
― T.M. Frazier, quote from King
“Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..."
He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow.
"You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich.
"You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?"
"Even now," the woman says firmly.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Double Identity
“فالكوبوقراطية هى نحن ونحن صنعناها انها نتيجة عجز كل واحد منا عن الوقوف والاعتراض وعلينا فى ذات الوقت الانتباه لاولئك المتآمرين المختبئين فى الظلال فاغلبنا يعمل فى هذه البنوك او الشركات او الحكومات او يعتمد عليها بدرجة او اخرى مستهلكا بضائعها او مستفيدا بخدماتها هل يمكننا ان نعض يد السيد الذى يطعمنا
هذا هو الموقف الذى كنت اتامله وانا جالس احملق فى العناوين الرئيسية على شاشة الكومبيوتر مستحضرا عددا من الاسئلة .هل يمكنك ان تقف ضد نظام يظهر انه يمنحك البيت والسيارة والطعام والملابس والكهرباء والرعاية الصحية ؟ حتى اذا كنت تعرف ان ذلك النظام هو نفسه الذى يخلق عالما يموت فيه جوعا اربعة وعشرون الف شخص يوميا ويزداد يوميا عدد الملايين من البشر التى تكرهك بسببه او على الاقل يكرهون السياسات التى صنعها رجال انت انتخبتهم ؟ كيف تستجمع شجاعتك لتتجاوز الخطوطوتتحدى مفاهيم طالما قبلتها انت وجيرانك كحقائق مسلمة حتى حين تشك فى ان هذا النظام مستعد لتدمير نفسه ؟”
― John Perkins, quote from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“I know, when we are young we cannot entertain the idea another's feelings can be as deep as our own. Our love is so much loftier, our pain so much more intense.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“Like, Jayno-eyes? That’s just as stupid as Berrystumpytail,” his sister replied.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Outcast
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