Quotes by : Anne Tyler

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

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters....

My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then....

You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your....

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

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute....

Alex Barrow’s broad face, with the roughened skin that gave him an air of experience. His powerful,....

Don't count on me to take you in because I'm angry. I'm angry at you for leading us on such a song and....

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most....

She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she....