"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."

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Source : Anita Shreve (2014). “The Weight Of Water”, p.42, Hachette UK

Anita Shreve

#Night Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.”
“Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.”
“Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive direction there has to be a certain amount of pride.”

Source : "Peter, Paul and Mary star Mary Travers dies aged 72", www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.
“The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.”
“To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to death. It will take the flower of the country - the young men.”
“There are newsweeklies that are dead. Some may still be walking, but they're dead.”
“At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is.”
“My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.”

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