“...against the grape-flushed sky perfect amethyst night.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Amethyst Copy Share Image
Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom. — Anne Rivers Siddons Flowers Copy Share Image
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely. — Anne Rivers Siddons Friend Copy Share Image
“On a night of icy silver radiance, when the very sea and stars seemed on fire with light.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Astronomy 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 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 Flower Copy Share Image
“Forsythia that I thought had been dozed into oblivion sprang up and misted the foundations with lemon icing I yearn for all… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to… — Anne Rivers Siddons 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 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 Copy Share Image
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country… — Anne Rivers Siddons Art 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 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
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
“So clear that you could see every delicate vein in the lacquered new leaves; so soft that you felt the air on… — Anne Rivers Siddons 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
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
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 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
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
“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
“All over Atlanta that fall, in the blue twilights, girls came clicking home from their jobs in their clunky heels and miniskirts… — Anne Rivers Siddons Gin and tonic 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Breath Copy Share Image
“(voice)...it was honey, smoke, crystal, fire, wind, water, earth.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes. — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
