Rebecca

“But there’s something else wrong; there’s something in this house I didn’t put here. I can feel it, I can hear it talking to me, but I can’t understand what it’s saying. If I could, I think I’d know what was wrong with me…. Colquitt, it’s just all gone. I’m not going to get it back.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“Buddy and Pie did not remain faceless long. We had faces, last names, and nearly intact genealogies for them both the very next day.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“In short we feel that it would be fatal for anyone else to occupy that house.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“It was not so much a peculiar question as a peculiar time to ask it. These small ritual sniffings—the finding of slots and niches for each other—are usually accomplished in the first few moments of conversation, pontoons laid down, one by one, in the bridge that will lead to friendship, or away from it. The lapse of time and space around his question gave it an odd portent.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door