Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sarah Addison Allen
Sarah Addison Allen Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
Her grandmother used to say something about how the air around you will turn white when things are about to change.
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.
When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
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?
We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other,
who will?
There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.
Daughters of the South were to their mothers what tributaries were to the main rivers they flowed into: their source of immovable strength.
She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another.
The neighborhood was quiet in that way only the cold could make it, as if freezing sounds before they hit the ground.
His casual, almost flippant, mention of it took her by surprise and made her feel cool and tart, like tasting lime for the first time.
History is a loop. We're exactly where they stood twenty years ago. What's theirs is ours, what's ours will become theirs.
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.
He loved that she made him something he never thought he'd been capable of being. Someone who stayed.
We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.
My favorite quote for First Frost is, They give their hearts away too easily and get distracted by silver-eyed strangers.
Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
He was one of those men for whom all their fatigue went to their eyes in a sleepy, sexy kind of way.
Lisette was born without the ability to speak, but she'd been brazen with written words as a child, substituting a sharp tongue for a poison pen.
She did know that it's remarkably easy to fall in love with someone who is already in love with you. It's a little like falling in love with yourself.
Ever read a story that you simply can't imagine how it will end? This place is like that. The best things in life are like that.
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.
But don't define yourself by what you *don't* want to do. Define yourself by what you do want to do.
When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.
Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.
It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.
In North Carolina, barbecue means pork, child. Hot dogs and hamburgers on a grill - that's called 'cooking out' around here,
Love always hurts. That's one thing I know you know. But it's worth it. That's what you don't know. Yet.
But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn't he have just stayed buried? No good had come of this.
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.
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
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.
Like all fairy tales, the beginning is always beautiful, a ruse to draw you into something you are anticipating.
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.
A breeze flew through, picking up some leaves and swirling them around, the sound like fluttering pages in a quiet library.