Rebecca

“It is damned, that house. It’s a greedy house. It takes. You said once, Col, that it would bring out the best in whoever lived there. You were wrong. It takes the best. It took that miserable Pie’s kid, and her marriage, and her daddy. It took that poor sonofabitch Buddy’s whole future. It took that Abbott guy’s future. It’s taking Anita Sheehan’s sanity—I know damned well there was more to her little ‘setback’ than you told me, Col—and it took my talent. And tonight it almost took you and Walter away from each other for good. Don’t you see that? Don’t either of you see that?”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“If it was an old house, I’d almost think it was haunted, but who ever heard of a haunted contemporary less than a year old?”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“The pretty is part of it of course. That’s its draw. That’s the bait.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“I think that’s why I’ve been sitting on my couch. That’s why I’m home all the time. Because I’m tired. I’m tired of trying so hard at something that comes so easily for everyone else. I stopped dating because it wasn’t working for me and I think I hoped that another option might materialize.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller