The Weight of Water Quotes

“Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.”
― Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water

“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.”
― Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water

“I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?”
― Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water

“There are moments in your life when you know that the sentence that will come next will change your life forever, although you realize, even as you are anticipating this sentence, that your life has already changed. Changed some time ago, and you simply didn't know it.”
― Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water

“Are we, as we age, I wonder, repaid for all our thoughtless gestures”
― Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water

“The air is sharp, and I understand why years ago sea air was prescribed as a tonic for the body.”
― Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water

“I can see the years that Thomas and I have had together, the fragility of that life. The creation of a marriage, of a family, not because it has been ordained or is meant to be, but because we have simply made it happen. We have done this thing, and then that thing, and then that thing, and I have come to think of our years together as a tightly knotted fisherman’s net; not perfectly made perhaps, but so well knit I would have said it could never have been unraveled. During”
― Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water

“Are we, as we age, I wonder, repaid for all our thoughtless gestures?”
― Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water

“and is it not true that in our extreme youth we possess the capacity to see more clearly and absorb more intensely the beauty that lies all before us, and so much more so than in our later youth or in our adulthood, when we have been apprised of sin and its stain and our eyes have become dulled, and we cannot see with the same purity, or love so well?”
― Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water

“At the Shoals, men have always fished for haddock and for hake, for porgies and for shad. In 1614, Captain John Smith first mapped the islands and called them Smythe's Isles, and he wrote that they were "a heape together".”
― Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water

“I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.”
― Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water