Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.
Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.
But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.
She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
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.
It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.
Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.
She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.
Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
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.
My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories
...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.
It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.
When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.
Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.
Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.
It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.
Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
