Anne Tyler Quotes

59 Sourced Quotes

Look at how long we took deciding whom we'd marry, but this baby's waltzing in out of nowhere, not so much as a background check or a personality quiz. What if it turns out we don't have any shared interests?

Anne Tyler
Neither of them wore watches. On them, watches broke or lost themselves or speeded up to keep some lawless schedule of their own so you could almost see the minute hand racing around the dial.

Anne Tyler
It's like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It's still there, but the sharpest edges are.. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and.. whoa! Like a knife! I'm not sure that will ever change.

Anne Tyler
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

Anne Tyler
See, there's this cook, this real country cook, and pot roast is the least of what she does. There's also pan-fried potatoes, black-eyed peas, beaten biscuits genuinely beat on a stump with the back of an ax.

Anne Tyler
No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

Anne Tyler
Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

Anne Tyler
The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

Anne Tyler
Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.

Anne Tyler