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The Last Time They Met opens with two old lovers, both poets, running into each other at a writer's conference. Well, Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes aren't old, actually--just middle-aged, with a lifetime's worth of history between them. In the first section, Anita Shreve only suggests what... read more
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- Linda Fallon: Add a description of this character.
- Thomas Janes
- Regina
- Peter
- Marcus
- Mary Ndegwa
- Roland
- Maria
- Vincent
- David
- Jean
- Donny T.
- Kennedy
- Billie
- Magdalene
- Erin
- Eileen
- Michael
- Patty
- Mr. Salim
- Eddie Garrity
- Seizek
- Elaine
- Gabrielle
- Lamu
- Tom
- Mary Ndegrwa
- Pimm
- Susan Sefton
Quotes edit
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“Behind them the pure pain of time lost was a star exploding.”
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“She felt with a shiver the rare sensation that she was exactly where she should be.”
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“I don't think I ever before knew the meaning of happiness.”
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“A day without you seems a day unlived, bearable only because I summon memory, mine subject to the merest oxidation, a faint rust blowing in the breezes.”
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“What shocks me is my love for you. I would like to think that what we have could exist outside of real life, that it could be a thing apart and not invade. Foolish and dangerous thinking. It has already invaded every part of my life.”
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“I think of you constantly. I imagine a world in which we can be together. I lie awake at night feeling you touch me. I believe we were meant to be together.”
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“I thought it was you who loved me more. But it is not true. It's me who loves you more.”
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“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.”
Thomas' last line of the book
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I have always been faithful to you. If faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
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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, by one set of circumstances or another,
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“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”
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In a marriage, you’re always working towards something, but you’re never sure when you’ve got there. If you’ve reached it yet. “Is there something more?” you keep asking yourself.
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I would like to think that what we have could exist outside of real time, that it could be a thing apart and not invade. Foolish and dangerous thinking. It has already invaded every part of my life.
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Amazing how one yearned to be called beautiful, how much the single word could please.
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It was one thing to resort to artifice, she thought, quite another to be bad at it.
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That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.
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As a sightless man who once had sight will learn to live with his condition, adjust to his darkened universe, and then, years later, when astonishingly he can see again, will know how glorious his world once was.
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What was left but forgiveness? Without it, she was suddenly certain, what there was of her life would be a torture, right down to the death agonies of the nursing home.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Nairobi
- Africa
- Kenya
- Boston
- Thorn Tree
- Skylark
- Cambridge
- Swahili
- Maine
- Njia
- Middlebury
- New York
- Brattleboro
- Malindi
- London
- Hull
- Petley
- Karen
First Sentence edit
She had come from the plane and was even now forgetting the ride from the airport.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Thomas Jane. (standard series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Anita Shreve (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 978-0316856140
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 978-0316856140
Page Count: 320
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- Dewey: 813
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