The Last Time They Met Quotes

“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”
― Anita Shreve, The Last Time They Met

“I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.”
― Anita Shreve, The Last Time They Met

“That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.”
― Anita Shreve, The Last Time They Met

“The weight of his losses finally too much to bear.

But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”
― Anita Shreve, The Last Time They Met

“It was probably not so unusual to be a different person with a different man, for all parts were authentically within, waiting to be coaxed out by one person or another”
― Anita Shreve, The Last Time They Met

“She felt with the shiver the rare sensation that she was exactly where she should be. She was an idea, a memory, one perfect possibility out of an infinite number.”
― Anita Shreve, The Last Time They Met

“Years had passed, and all of life was different now.”
― Anita Shreve, The Last Time They Met