“I thought. I thought of the slow yellow autumn in the swamp and the high honey sun of spring and the eternal silence of the marshes, and the shivering light on them, and the whisper of the spartina and sweet… — Anne Rivers Siddons 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 as charming… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
“You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it to keep… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
“Everything about it and the fierce old coast around it, had the ring and taste and feel of utter rightness to me. Its peace… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
“The air was cool and fresh and smelled of the kelp and salt that streamed in off the bay at the full of the… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely. — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
“Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in sepia.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
“It was what Trinity was all about: training you to be British and then insisting instead that you be Southern.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes. — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
“Fireflies winked, and the darkening bay breathed and sighed like a great dolphin and the thin pure curve of a young moon hung in… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
“I thought. I thought of the slow yellow autumn in the swamp and the high honey sun of spring and the eternal silence of… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
“...and I thought I might take him home and see how he works. It's really neat the way all those little bone things fit… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
“Sometimes I could scarcely breathe with the knowledge that for the rest of my life, whenever we wanted, Peter and I could lie down… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share
