"To leave, after all, was not the same as being left."

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Anita Shreve

“There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.”

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“Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.”
“No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.”
“I don't watch a lot of TV. I am madly in love, I'm a big sap, I'm madly in love with Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I cry every week.”
“Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.”
“I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.”
“Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.”
“Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”

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