Jessica

“Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.”
― Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

“A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.”
― Anita Shreve, Eden Close

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.”
― Anita Shreve, Where Or When: A Gripping Contemporary Romance Where One Love Letter Reignites Old Love and Obsession