Quotes from Anne Rivers Siddons

and the afternoon flowed on into lavender evening.

At the dune line, just before the whispering stands of sea oats and dune grass began, the sand was as damp and cold as the skin of a snake under my feet.

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

leaving the air crystal and sweet and the dusty, used leaves sparkling. The lake surface was a diamond-dusted, dancing indigo...

I fell in love with Peter at that precise instant. I don't suppose many other women know the exact moment the rest of their lives began.

Peter and I danced in bare feet in the cold wet undergrowth while the moon poured its wild old silver down on us and the water ran black and ancient and the moss shone.

Sometimes I could scarcely breathe with the knowledge that for the rest of my life, whenever we wanted, Peter and I could lie down and do whatever we wished.

Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in sepia.

Her light brown eyes were the color of sherry, fringed with long, thick, gold-tipped lashes.

On a night of icy silver radiance, when the very sea and stars seemed on fire with light.

against the grape-flushed sky perfect amethyst night.

Yancey crawled from her tangled bed one morning and assembled her long limbs and sharp bones into something as exotic and seductive to the eye as a peacock or a griffin or a unicorn.

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 together, like a zipper.

Be careful who you love. They'll be part of you always. Even after the love is long dead, the fuckers'll be part of you.

I can supply the thereness. You can't ask what's not there to give.

You never, never ask a young man to take you anywhere, Molly. It's cheap. It sounds desperate. It sounds like you can't get a date any other way. With your height and those big breasts, you're always going to have to be careful not to look desperate. A real beauty can get away with it, maybe, but the rest of us ordinary girls have to be very, very careful not to look desperate.

All places where the French settled have corruption at their heart, a kind of soft, rotten glow, like the phosphorescence of decaying wood, that is oddly attractive.

I become dim and shriveled, somehow, at my very core if I am away from the sea too long.

heavy satin that fell like spilled syrup...

But there sometimes comes a moment, a small, silent white explosion of awareness.

the villa) It's beautiful too, all hot pinks and reds, and rocks and sand and blinding blue and white.

to sputter and giggle—Baby too. "I followed my piss!" I said between hiccupping laughter. "She followed her piss and her dreams came true!" Rachel screamed. "Follow your piss, Obi-Wan Kenobi," Barbara intoned.

You will have to grow up to her quickly, I thought, surprising myself, or you will lose her.