Forsythia Quote 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…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“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

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

“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

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

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“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

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“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

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

— Anne Rivers Siddons

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

— 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…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

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

“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

“...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

“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