“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
“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
“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
“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
“But there sometimes comes a moment, a small, silent white explosion of awareness.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Knowledge Copy Share Image
“(the villa) It's beautiful too, all hot pinks and reds, and rocks and sand and blinding blue and white.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Blue and white 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
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
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while. — Anne Rivers Siddons Littles Copy Share Image
“The very old can tell you about peace. They have fought through the black, sinking, visceral knowledge of death–their own death–that heralds… — Anne Rivers Siddons Carpe diem Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that… — Anne Rivers Siddons Change Copy Share Image
Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom. — Anne Rivers Siddons Flowers 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
“...leaving the air crystal and sweet and the dusty, used leaves sparkling. The lake surface was a diamond-dusted, dancing indigo...” — Anne Rivers Siddons Lake Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has lost a love to death can tell you about that fall. You wake from a hard-won sleep and be… — Anne Rivers Siddons Death Copy Share Image
“Peter and I danced in bare feet in the cold wet undergrowth while the moon poured its wild old silver down on… — Anne Rivers Siddons Bare feet Copy Share Image
“The room was bright and white and still and silent, but soundless sound roared and howled in it.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“There was no moon at all, and a faint silver peppering of starts fardly showed through the scrim of high clouds. The… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“...bathed in the thick honey gold of the sun through encircling trees only just beginning to turn the muted metal colors of… — Anne Rivers Siddons Fall Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild… — Anne Rivers Siddons Important 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 up Copy Share Image
“All places where the French settled have corruption at their heart, a kind of soft, rotten glow, like the phosphorescence of decaying… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
