“(voice)...it was honey, smoke, crystal, fire, wind, water, earth.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Nature Copy Share Image
I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes. — Anne Rivers Siddons Caught Copy Share Image
“...and the afternoon flowed on into lavender evening.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Afternoon Copy Share Image
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely. — Anne Rivers Siddons Friend Copy Share Image
I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled. — Anne Rivers Siddons Feminism Copy Share Image
“Be careful who you love. They'll be part of you always. Even after the love is long dead, the fuckers'll be part… — Anne Rivers Siddons Love Copy Share Image
“...and I thought I might take him home and see how he works. It's really neat the way all those little bone… — Anne Rivers Siddons Neat Way Copy Share Image
“But there sometimes comes a moment, a small, silent white explosion of awareness.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Awareness Copy Share Image
“Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in… — Anne Rivers Siddons Characters Copy Share Image
“Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Children Copy Share Image
“I fell in love with Peter at that precise instant. I don't suppose many other women know the exact moment the rest… — Anne Rivers Siddons Love Copy Share Image
“Fireflies winked, and the darkening bay breathed and sighed like a great dolphin and the thin pure curve of a young moon… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that… — Anne Rivers Siddons Champagne Copy Share Image
I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the… — Anne Rivers Siddons Arms Copy Share Image
“Everything about it and the fierce old coast around it, had the ring and taste and feel of utter rightness to me.… — Anne Rivers Siddons Wildness 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… — Anne Rivers Siddons Big cities Copy Share Image
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some,… — Anne Rivers Siddons Book Copy Share Image
“Yancey crawled from her tangled bed one morning and assembled her long limbs and sharp bones into something as exotic and seductive… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place… — Anne Rivers Siddons Air Copy Share Image
Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become… — Anne Rivers Siddons Elementals Copy Share Image
“I grew as fussy and particular about where to put what, which books should lie where, what cushion should grace what corner… — Anne Rivers Siddons Books Copy Share Image
“The air was cool and fresh and smelled of the kelp and salt that streamed in off the bay at the full… — Anne Rivers Siddons Another day Copy Share Image
“Whenever you see redwoods in the National Geographic, or fog, or watch Shamu on TV, you'll be seeing me. Whenever you smell… — Anne Rivers Siddons Love Copy Share Image
“I thought. I thought of the slow yellow autumn in the swamp and the high honey sun of spring and the eternal… — Anne Rivers Siddons Nature Copy Share Image
“I still don't know a place with lovelier Aprils. The mornings and nights are fresh and cool, and the sun pours down… — Anne Rivers Siddons Flower Copy Share Image
“Her light brown eyes were the color of sherry, fringed with long, thick, gold-tipped lashes.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Brown eyes Copy Share Image
“The sunset over the bay that evening was a conflagration of blood-red and orange and deep, gold-edged purple. I remember: unforgettable.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Sunsets Copy Share Image
“It was what Trinity was all about: training you to be British and then insisting instead that you be Southern.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Fitness Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I could scarcely breathe with the knowledge that for the rest of my life, whenever we wanted, Peter and I could… — Anne Rivers Siddons Breathe Copy Share Image
“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… — Anne Rivers Siddons Maintain Copy Share Image
“An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Silence Copy Share Image
Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up. — Anne Rivers Siddons Look Copy Share Image
Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water. — Anne Rivers Siddons Fishes Copy Share Image
“...against the grape-flushed sky perfect amethyst night.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Amethyst Copy Share Image
