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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/i-thought-i-thought-of-the-slow-yellow-autumn-in-the-swamp-and-the/)

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## More by Anne Rivers Siddons

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/i-don-t-think-you-ever-think-of-a-big-city-as-sweet-or-community-but/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/you-wouldn-t-maintain-a-house-like-that-you-d-feet-it-and-water-it/)

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> [Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/somebody-said-writing-is-easy-you-just-sit-down-at-your-typewriter/)

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> [“Everything about it and the fierce old coast around it, had the ring and taste and feel of utter rightness to me. Its peace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/everything-about-it-and-the-fierce-old-coast-around-it-had-the-ring/)

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> [“...and turned his eyes the color of a winter sea.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/and-turned-his-eyes-the-color-of-a-winter-sea/)

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> [“The air was cool and fresh and smelled of the kelp and salt that streamed in off the bay at the full of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/the-air-was-cool-and-fresh-and-smelled-of-the-kelp-and-salt-that/)

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> [A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/a-real-friendship-is-a-light-thing-a-real-friend-holds-you-loosely/)

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> [“Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in sepia.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/jenny-looked-as-usual-elegant-and-as-fine-drawn-as-a-young-doe-but/)

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> [“It was what Trinity was all about: training you to be British and then insisting instead that you be Southern.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/it-was-what-trinity-was-all-about-training-you-to-be-british-and-then/)

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> [I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/i-think-we-all-get-too-caught-up-in-doing-instead-of-just-being/)

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> [“Fireflies winked, and the darkening bay breathed and sighed like a great dolphin and the thin pure curve of a young moon hung in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/fireflies-winked-and-the-darkening-bay-breathed-and-sighed-like-a/)

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> [I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/i-could-run-nearly-naked-on-a-hot-windy-beach-and-plunge-without-care/)

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> [“I thought. I thought of the slow yellow autumn in the swamp and the high honey sun of spring and the eternal silence of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/i-thought-i-thought-of-the-slow-yellow-autumn-in-the-swamp-and-the/)

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> [“...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/and-i-thought-i-might-take-him-home-and-see-how-he-works-it-s-really/)

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> [“Sometimes I could scarcely breathe with the knowledge that for the rest of my life, whenever we wanted, Peter and I could lie down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/sometimes-i-could-scarcely-breathe-with-the-knowledge-that-for-the/)

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