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You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

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I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.

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When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.

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When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.

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I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head.

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Skeptical of strangers, lobstermen are keepers of secrets, working in the howling wind and hot sun, the icy snows, and bewildering fog. When I was growing up, the lore was that they had the right to shoot anyone who messed with their traps.

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Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

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Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

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If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.

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Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: February 9th, 1970

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