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I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.

Anne Rivers Siddons

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness...

Anne Rivers Siddons

Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.

Anne Rivers Siddons

I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Anne Rivers Siddons

Anne Rivers Siddons

Born: January 9, 1936

Died: September 11, 2019 (aged 83)

Bio: Anne Rivers Siddons was an American novelist who writes stories set in the southern United States.

Known for:

Up island (1997)
Burnt Mountain (2011)
The Girls of August (2014)
The House Next Door (1978)
Fox's Earth (1981)

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