ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS
American essayist and novelist (1936 - )
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The South killed Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable on the day she
was born. It just took her until now to die. It was a textbook
murder, classical in concept, faultless is execution; a work of
art, really, as such things go. And no wonder. It's what we do
best, kill our women. Or maim them. Or make monsters of them,
which may be the worst of all.
- Peachtree Road [Books (First Lines)]
You know how people are always saying "I knew it by the back of
my neck" when they mean those occasional scalding slashes of
human intuition that later prove to be true? My mother was
always saying it, though she was not always right. Nevertheless,
in my half-Celt family, the back of one's neck is a hallowed
harbinger of things to come.
- Up Island [Books (First Lines)]
Last Revised: 2009 April 2
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