If Morning Ever Comes Quotes

“when I get up in the morning I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again. I”
― Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes

“Everything was harried and nightmarish and yet the same small practical things were going on at the same time.”
― Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes

“Except for an occassional Sunday, they don't make days like they used to. I mean they don't make them whole anymore..........Days seem to come in pieces now. They used to be in blocks-all one solid color to them.”
― Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes

“He saw millions of houses, viewed from an airplane, and every couchc in every tiny house was occupied by someone from yet another house. Everyone was shuffled around helter-skelter-Ben Joe on Shelley's couch, Gary on Ben Joe's couch, and God knew who was on Gary's couch.”
― Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes

“Seems like you are always loving the people that fly away from you, Ben Joe, and flying away from the people that love you.”
― Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes

“Every place I go I miss another place.”
― Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes

“When I am away from Sandhill, sometimes the picture of it comes drifting toward me- just the picture of it, like some sunny little island I have got to get back to. And there's my family. Most of the time I seem to see them sort of like a bunch of picnickers in a nineteenth century painting, sitting around in the grass with their picnic baskets and their pretty dresses and parasols, and floating past on that island. I think, I've got to get back. I think, they need me there and I have got to get back to them. But when I go back, they laugh at me and rumple my hair and ask why I;m such a worrier. And I can't tell them why. There's nothing I can tell them. Pretty soon I leave again, on account of seeing myself so weak and speechless and worried. I get to thinking about something I just miss like hell in another town, like this tree on a street in Atlanta that has a real electric socket in it, right in the trunk, or the trolley cars in Philadelphia making that faraway lonesome sound as they pass down an empty street in the rain, through old torn-down slum buildings with nothing but a wallpapered sheet of brick and a set of stone steps left standing...”
― Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes

“The trouble is I'm reversible. You're hardly alive if you're reversible as I am.......But the irreversible people' they get some place. Good or bad.”
― Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes

“But my family's passing came so sudden. Left me strap-hanging in empty space, like.”
― Anne Tyler , If Morning Ever Comes

“What if marrying Shelley meant that she would end up just like him, unable to realize a thing's happening or a moment's passing? What if it were like a contagious disease, so that soon she would be wandering around in a daze and incapable of putting her finger on any given thing and saying, that is that?”
― Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes