Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.

He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.

Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.

I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?

Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.

all we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other, who will?

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.

Safe is just another word for scared.

Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.

Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.

Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.

Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.

Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.

Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.

It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.

He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer's progress, helpless, almost as if they couldn't look away. "They remind you of something good--picnics or carrying sparklers around at night. Southern men will hold doors open for you, they'll hold you after you yell at them, and they'll hold on to their pride no matter what. Be careful what they tell you, though. They have a way of making you believe anything, because they say it that way.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.

Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.

Willa?" "Yes" "It's morning and I still love you.

You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?

How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?

People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.