I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes. — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“(voice)...it was honey, smoke, crystal, fire, wind, water, earth.” — Anne Rivers Siddons 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
Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom. — Anne Rivers Siddons Flowers 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
“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 Fireflies 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
“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 Moon 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
Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up. — Anne Rivers Siddons 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
“...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 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 Corruption Copy Share Image
“At four that morning my son, Peter Williams Chambliss, slid into the world tiny and red and roaring with life and the… — Anne Rivers Siddons Life 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
“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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“...against the grape-flushed sky perfect amethyst night.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Amethyst Copy Share Image
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely. — Anne Rivers Siddons Friend Copy Share Image
