She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
Anne TylerThere 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.
Anne TylerEverything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
Anne Tyler