Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth. 'What, cremation?' she asked. 'Death.” — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“dying, you don't get to see how it all turns out. Questions you have asked will go unanswered forever. Will this one… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“We live such tangled, fraught lives, he thought, but in the end we die like all the other animals and we're buried… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“You wake in the morning, you’re feeling fine, but all at once you think, “Something’s not right. Something’s off somewhere; what is it?” And… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Justine hated pantsuits. Whenever she saw one, she had an urge to tell the owner some scandalous fortune, loudly enough to be heard everywhere:… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
