“(voice)...it was honey, smoke, crystal, fire, wind, water, earth.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Breath Copy Share Image
I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes. — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely. — Anne Rivers Siddons Friend Copy Share Image
“At the dune line, just before the whispering stands of sea oats and dune grass began, the sand was as damp and… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while. — Anne Rivers Siddons Imaginable Copy Share Image
I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled. — Anne Rivers Siddons Feminism Copy Share Image
“The room was bright and white and still and silent, but soundless sound roared and howled in it.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“Be careful who you love. They'll be part of you always. Even after the love is long dead, the fuckers'll be part… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Children Copy Share Image
“...bathed in the thick honey gold of the sun through encircling trees only just beginning to turn the muted metal colors of… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“(the villa) It's beautiful too, all hot pinks and reds, and rocks and sand and blinding blue and white.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Beautiful Copy Share Image
I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that… — Anne Rivers Siddons Champagne Copy Share Image
“At four that morning my son, Peter Williams Chambliss, slid into the world tiny and red and roaring with life and the… — Anne Rivers Siddons Life Copy Share Image
“All places where the French settled have corruption at their heart, a kind of soft, rotten glow, like the phosphorescence of decaying… — Anne Rivers Siddons Corruption Copy Share Image
“Peter and I danced in bare feet in the cold wet undergrowth while the moon poured its wild old silver down on… — Anne Rivers Siddons Bare feet Copy Share Image
“Everything about it and the fierce old coast around it, had the ring and taste and feel of utter rightness to me.… — Anne Rivers Siddons Wildness Copy Share Image
I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some,… — Anne Rivers Siddons Book Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of… — Anne Rivers Siddons Big cities Copy Share Image
“All over Atlanta that fall, in the blue twilights, girls came clicking home from their jobs in their clunky heels and miniskirts… — Anne Rivers Siddons Gin and tonic Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has lost a love to death can tell you about that fall. You wake from a hard-won sleep and be… — Anne Rivers Siddons Death Copy Share Image
“There was no moon at all, and a faint silver peppering of starts fardly showed through the scrim of high clouds. The… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become… — Anne Rivers Siddons Elementals Copy Share Image
“I grew as fussy and particular about where to put what, which books should lie where, what cushion should grace what corner… — Anne Rivers Siddons Books Copy Share Image
“The air was cool and fresh and smelled of the kelp and salt that streamed in off the bay at the full… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“Whenever you see redwoods in the National Geographic, or fog, or watch Shamu on TV, you'll be seeing me. Whenever you smell… — Anne Rivers Siddons Love Copy Share Image
“The very old can tell you about peace. They have fought through the black, sinking, visceral knowledge of death–their own death–that heralds… — Anne Rivers Siddons Carpe diem Copy Share Image
“I thought. I thought of the slow yellow autumn in the swamp and the high honey sun of spring and the eternal… — Anne Rivers Siddons Nature Copy Share Image
“I still don't know a place with lovelier Aprils. The mornings and nights are fresh and cool, and the sun pours down… — Anne Rivers Siddons Flower Copy Share Image
“...against the grape-flushed sky perfect amethyst night.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Amethyst Copy Share Image
Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom. — Anne Rivers Siddons Flowers Copy Share Image
