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Big, and when you all come to visit it's too small." "We'll be fine, — Anne Tyler

Those who forget the past tend to regret the future — Anne Tyler

This is a specific person, do you understand? Not just some patient. I want to make sure you realize that. — Anne Tyler

Agatha sighed. "As the hart panteth after the water brooks," she said flatly, "so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. — Anne Tyler

The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them — Anne Tyler

She remembered the feel of wind on summer nights - how it billows through the house and wafts the curtains and smells of tar and roses — Anne Tyler

Everyone must play his role. — Anne Tyler

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. — Anne Tyler

If you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad. — Anne Tyler

apart," Abby said. "Yes, except he could put it back — Anne Tyler

Past is past ... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely. — Anne Tyler

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

Much of Macon's youth was ruled by connotations. — Anne Tyler

(The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.) — Anne Tyler

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them. — Anne Tyler

You belong," he told her. "You belong just as much as I do, or, who, or Bitsy or ... It's just like Christmas. We all think the others belong more. — Anne Tyler

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. — Anne Tyler

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level. — Anne Tyler

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. — Anne Tyler

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it. — Anne Tyler

Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth.
'What, cremation?' she asked.
'Death. — Anne Tyler

Not invade her privacy! Just sit back and give up on her, as if she were a missing pet or mitten, or dropped penny. — Anne Tyler

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. — Anne Tyler

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could. — Anne Tyler

he wrote a series of guidebooks for people forced to travel on business. Ridiculous, when you thought about it: Macon hated travel. — Anne Tyler

Sometimes, Kate was downright astonished by how much the women in the faculty lounge sounded like the little girls nattering away in Room 4. It — Anne Tyler

My writing is sort of 'Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.' — John Searles

Serious. She'd been frantic. Over his crib she had — Anne Tyler

Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives? — Anne Tyler

Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs. — Anne Tyler

And sometimes," he said, "you get to what you thought was the end and you find it's a whole new beginning. — Anne Tyler

For me, writing something down was the only road out. — Anne Tyler

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it. — Anne Tyler

Funny how you have to picture losing a thing before you think you might value it after all. — Anne Tyler

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him. — Anne Tyler

I'm falling into disrepair — Anne Tyler

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. — Anne Tyler

should join in on "Shall We Gather at — Anne Tyler

Peculiar, isn't it?" he said. "First you're scolding your children and then all at once they're so smart they're scolding you. — Anne Tyler

And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love. — Anne Tyler

Who would have thought," the witch had asked, "that a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? — Anne Tyler

I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything he writes. — Caroline Thompson

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

Just like his daddy, but his daddy wants Red to be different from him. Isn't that always how it is? — Anne Tyler

He must have some Tartar in him, don't you think?" "I have no idea," Kate said. "Or is it 'Tatar. — Anne Tyler

She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby. — Anne Tyler

I spend about a year between novels. — Anne Tyler

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all. — Anne Tyler

Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.' — Anne Tyler

It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded. — Anne Tyler

I really believe that most people who seem scary are just sad. — Anne Tyler

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got. — Anne Tyler

I don't type [when I write] because ... I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand. — Anne Tyler

It's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son. — Anne Tyler

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing. — Anne Tyler

At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less. — Anne Tyler

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

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place. — Anne Tyler

It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it". — Anne Tyler

How plotless real life was! — Anne Tyler

Apparently you grow to love whom you're handed. — Anne Tyler

Skinny as a fence post. — Anne Tyler

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily. — Anne Tyler

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows. — Anne Tyler

A Japanese man festooned with cameras, a nun, a young girl in braids. — Anne Tyler

Oh, the terrible, crushing, breath-stealing burden of people who think they own you! — Anne Tyler

If we had been any different, would they have loved us? — Anne Tyler

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it. — Anne Tyler

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

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all. — Anne Tyler

But what if it's someone who's not our type? Someone who wears the back of her collar up or something?' — Anne Tyler

For me, writing was the only way out. — Anne Tyler

All those years when I was a child, longing for it to be 'my turn,' it hadn't ever occurred to me that my turn would be over, by and by. — Anne Tyler

When I read, I'm purely a reader. — Anne Tyler

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no. — Anne Tyler

I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something. — Anne Tyler

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying. — Anne Tyler

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up. — Anne Tyler

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all. — Anne Tyler

Was just, seems like, born knowing how. He can figure — Anne Tyler

When you have children, you're obligated to live. — Anne Tyler

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners. — Anne Tyler

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be. — Anne Tyler

In a way," I told Peggy, "it's like the grief has been covered over with some — Anne Tyler

My stories are never quite good enough. — Anne Tyler

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe. — Anne Tyler

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward. — Anne Tyler

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him. — Anne Tyler

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. — Anne Tyler

All I saw was one black cat, an insultingly paranoid type who shrank off as I drew near. — Anne Tyler

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. — Anne Tyler

You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' — Anne Tyler

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing. — Anne Tyler

And all at once I had no one to trade looks with. — Anne Tyler

That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it all with. — Anne Tyler

Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened. — Anne Tyler

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. — Anne Tyler

Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read. — Anne Tyler

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life. — Anne Tyler

You could really feel physically wounded if someone hurt your feelings badly enough. — Anne Tyler