Quote by Anne Rivers Siddons

““Fireflies winked, and the darkening bay breathed and sighed like a great dolphin and the thin pure curve of a young moon hung in the green sky...””

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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…

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“...and turned his eyes the color of a winter sea.”

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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.”

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“It was what Trinity was all about: training you to be British and then insisting instead that you be Southern.”

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I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

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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…

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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…

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