“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

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American writer 1946–2018

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