Colony (1992) (edit title/settings)

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• Big Peter: Maude's Father in Law
• Grammaude: The name by which Maude is referenced in her later years.
• Micah Willis: The local caretaker for many of the vacationers, and a good friend of Maude's.
• Mother Hannah: Maude's Mother-in-law
• Micah Willis: Add a description of this character.
• Darcy
• Petie
• Parker Potter
• Sarah
• Elizabeth Potter: Parker's daughter
• Christina Willis: Micah's wife.
• Amy Potter
• Gretchen Winslow
• Sean
• Tommy O'ryan
• Caleb Willis
• Mary
• Dr. Lincoln
• Peter Chambliss
• Mamadear
• Hermie
• Warrie
• Sally
• Mrs. Stallings
• Maude Caroline
• Braebonnie
• Kemble
• Dierdre Kennedy
• Grandpa
• Lottie Padgett
• Erica
• Gascoigne

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• “zut alors!”

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• T. S. Eliot said it better than anybody: ‘Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to be still.’ ”

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• The greatest gift the sea has to give is timelessness. Beside it, if you are able to receive it, that vast blue amplitude of space and time soothes, simplifies, heals. Beside it, if you are very quiet and still, you see clearly that life is and always has been outside time, a thing apart from it, and so you need have no real fear of time’s poison fruits. They will still fall in your lap, of course, but beside the sea they do not taste bitter.

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• The contentment of living each day as it comes to them, wholly and with all senses. The young do it because they know nothing, yet, of pain and fear and the transience of their lives; the old because they know everything of those things and can bear them only by staying in the moment. Carpe diem may be the sum of all the world’s wisdom. I have always thought Horace must have been old when he wrote it.

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• understand the…the impulse toward simplicity that a lot of people think is senility.”

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• There are no limits to our capacity for love; that is the one sure thing I have kept out of a lifetime’s scant store of truths.

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• But you cannot unknow the future once you have sensed it, and so forever after you will mark those epochal passages by the first moment you felt their shapes ahead of you.

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• Every woman who has been in love with a man long before and lost him wants to retest those waters when she meets him many years later. She may be supremely happy with her current state of affairs, and usually she has no wish at all to resume the relationship. She simply wants to see if she has the power to make him the slightest bit sorry. I think it is so universal a trait with women as to be genetic.

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• “When you’re old,” she said, “you have a lot to pick and choose from in your memory. If you’ve lived an interesting life, the things you’ll want to keep will be rather wonderful. I think only bores talk about boring things.

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• ‘The soul selects her own society and shuts the door. On her divine majority, obtrude no more.’ ”

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• “Oh, the sheer, ignorant tyranny of the young,” she said as if to someone else. “Just listen to you! ’You should have stopped him. Be my mama. Be only what you can be to me and nothing else. Have no life and no reality but the part I can understand, the tiny bit that applies to me. Me, me, me. Be a fraction of a woman, or I will not love you.’ God. You know nothing of me. None of you do.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Northpoint
• Boston
• Maine
• Charleston
• Osprey Head
• Castine
• Liberty
• Princeton
• New England
• Atlanta
• France
• South Brooksville
• Northeast Harbor
• Italy
• New York
• Belleau
• Bangor
• Paris
• Little House
• Augusta
• Penobscot Bay
• Saugus
• Nova Scotia
• Brookline
• Retreat
• Loon Ledge
• Europe
• Saint Cecilia
• Wappoo Creek
• Washington
• Providence
• Islesboro
• Guildford
• Blue Hill
• Rome

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Anne Rivers Siddons (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( S ) › Siddons, Anne Rivers
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Contemporary