Sajjan

“But how do you ever know that you know a person?”
― Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

“Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.”
― Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

“She noticed this time that his eyes weren't really gray, but green, and that perhaps they were set too close together. His forehead was awfully high, and when he smiled, his teeth were slightly crooked. And there was something cocky in his manner, but that might just be the salesman in him, she thought. Honora laid these flaws aside as one might overlook a small stain on a beautifully embroidered tablecloth one wanted to buy, only later to discover, when it was on the table and all the guests were seated around it, that the stain had become a beacon, while the beautiful embroidery lay hidden in everybody's laps.”
― Anita Shreve (Sea Glass)

“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
― Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife