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Anita Shreve

“... she suddenly looks different to Olympia, physically different, as though a portrait has been alterred. And Olympia thinks that possibly such adjustments might have to be made for everyone she knows. Upon meeting a person, a sketch is formed, and for the life of the relationship, however intimate or not, a portrait is painted, with oils or pastels or with black ink or with watercolor, and only at a persons's death can the portraits be considered finished. Perhaps not even at the person's death.”

Anita Shreve, Fortune's Rocks
tags: portraits
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Fortune's Rocks (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #1) Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
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