Quotes from Anne Rivers Siddons

faculty that DeeDee had a voice just like Yma

An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.

I felt a savage rush of love for her, an impulse for her safety so primal and deep that it might have sprung from my womb.

winter days, but distantly. Like very old ghosts.

The bluff heartiness, the posturing, the inflamed face, the badinage were missing. He was gray-white and his eyes were swollen and bloodshot.

So clear that you could see every delicate vein in the lacquered new leaves; so soft that you felt the air on newly bared arms like velvet; so suffused with every shade of green that it seemed that your very blood ran green, in harmony.

the pastel sea of trees and flowers.

It was what Trinity was all about: training you to be British and then insisting instead that you be Southern.

Sometimes—not very often, in any life—there come days so perfect and seamless and golden that you remember them always. Almost everyone has them, though some, I think, have more than others. It just isn't given to everyone to simply love a day for its own sake. But they are the very coin of memory, and you can pull them out over and over again and fondle them, and spend them, and they are never depleted.

My favorite color is yellow... because you can walk through it. Yellow doesn't end. It goes on and on.

I found this guy standing out on the lawn admiring his handiwork,' Lucas Abbott said. 'I thought he was rooted to the ground...I didn't know architects got opening-night nerves.

Walter and I are very fond of some children, but not across the board, not as a species. No

ancestor, and the combination was

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.