01c. 1941 ADBut if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.Anne Tyler / quote ↗
03c. 1941 ADThe trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.Anne Tyler / quote ↗
06c. 1941 ADThe very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.Anne Tyler / quote ↗
07c. 1941 ADIt is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.Anne Tyler / quote ↗
08c. 1941 ADFace it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.Anne Tyler / quote ↗
09c. 1941 ADPeople always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.Anne Tyler / quote ↗
11c. 1941 ADI would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.Anne Tyler / quote ↗
12c. 1941 ADTime, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.Anne Tyler / quote ↗
13c. 1941 ADFor my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.Anne Tyler / quote ↗
14c. 1941 ADEver 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 / quote ↗
