“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
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Anne Tyler
“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.” ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.” ― Anne Tyler
“I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get” ― Anne Tyler
“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. ” ― Anne Tyler
“It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.” ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
“One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.(from 'Celestial Navigation')” ― Anne Tyler
“Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.” ― Anne Tyler
“It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.” ― Anne Tyler
“Everything,' his father said, 'comes down to time in the end--to the passing of time, to changing. Ever thought of that? Anything that makes you happy or sad, isn't it all based on minutes going by? Isn't sadness wishing time back again? Even big things--even mourning a death: aren't you really just wishing to have the time back when that person was alive? Or photos--ever notice old photographs? How wistful they make you feel? ... Isn't it just that time for once is stopped that makes you wistful? If only you could turn it back again, you think. If only you could change this or that, undo what you have done, if only you could roll the minutes the other way, for once.” ― Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
“It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.” ― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups
“People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.” ― Anne Tyler, The Beginner's Goodbye
“(The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)” ― Anne Tyler, Vinegar Girl
“Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!” ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
“There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.” ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
“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, The Beginner's Goodbye
“He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.” ― Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage
“Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.” ― Anne Tyler, The Tin Can Tree
“But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.” ― Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years
“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.” ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.” ― Anne Tyler
“I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get” ― Anne Tyler
“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. ” ― Anne Tyler
“It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.” ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
“One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.(from 'Celestial Navigation')” ― Anne Tyler
“Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.” ― Anne Tyler
“It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.” ― Anne Tyler
“Everything,' his father said, 'comes down to time in the end--to the passing of time, to changing. Ever thought of that? Anything that makes you happy or sad, isn't it all based on minutes going by? Isn't sadness wishing time back again? Even big things--even mourning a death: aren't you really just wishing to have the time back when that person was alive? Or photos--ever notice old photographs? How wistful they make you feel? ... Isn't it just that time for once is stopped that makes you wistful? If only you could turn it back again, you think. If only you could change this or that, undo what you have done, if only you could roll the minutes the other way, for once.” ― Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
“It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.” ― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups
“People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.” ― Anne Tyler, The Beginner's Goodbye
“(The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)” ― Anne Tyler, Vinegar Girl
“Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!” ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
“There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.” ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
“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, The Beginner's Goodbye
“He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.” ― Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage
“Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.” ― Anne Tyler, The Tin Can Tree
“But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.” ― Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years
