Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.
Anita ShreveOnce you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.
Anita ShreveAnd so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.
Anita ShreveChildren don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
Anita ShreveThe difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.
Anita Shreve