The House Next Door Quotes

“Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“The room was bright and white and still and silent, but soundless sound roared and howled in it.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it to keep it alive and healthy.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“Forsythia that I thought had been dozed into oblivion sprang up and misted the foundations with lemon icing I yearn for all winter.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“...and I thought I might take him home and see how he works. It's really neat the way all those little bone things fit together, like a zipper.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“Walter and I are very fond of some children, but not across the board, not as a species. No”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“I found this guy standing out on the lawn admiring his handiwork,' Lucas Abbott said. 'I thought he was rooted to the ground...I didn't know architects got opening-night nerves.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“I become dim and shriveled, somehow, at my very core if I am away from the sea too long.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“The bluff heartiness, the posturing, the inflamed face, the badinage were missing. He was gray-white and his eyes were swollen and bloodshot.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door