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
She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. — 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
