Anita Shreve: Quotes about love

Anita Shreve was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Anita Shreve: 30 quotes2 likes

“I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.”

Anita Shreve book The Weight of Water

Source: The Weight of Water

“Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.”

Anita Shreve book Fortune's Rocks

Source: Fortune's Rocks

“And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.”

Source: Testimony

“To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.”

Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife

Source: The Pilot's Wife

“I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.”

Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife

Source: The Pilot's Wife