Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.
Sarah Addison AllenThe trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.
Sarah Addison AllenThe word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Sarah Addison AllenIt had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
Sarah Addison AllenShe'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.
Sarah Addison Allen