“To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.”
Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife
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The Pilot's Wife : A Novel is a 1998 novel by Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the third novel in Shreve's informal trilogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. It is preceded by Fortune's Rocks and Sea Glass.
“I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.”
Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife
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“But how do you ever know that you know a person?”
Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife
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“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife
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