Friday October 25th

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

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

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
― Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage

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

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
― Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage

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

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

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

They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.
― Anne Tyler

I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.
― Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons