Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

“Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

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

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Something was about to happen.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“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.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“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.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“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.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

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 Allen

“When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

Love always hurts. That's one thing I know you know. But it's worth it. That's what you don't know. Yet.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“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.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“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.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“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.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

Life is too short to spend time with people' who suck the happiness "out of u"..

— Sarah Addison Allen

“The sky was incredible that night, the moon nearly full and the stars littering the sky like tossed stones.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize ... She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“She'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

“Even at seventy-four, with a limp from a hip replacement, Margaret could still enter a room and fill it like perfume.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

I'm going out with Colin Osgood today, and he's meeting me here. If you start making kissy noises, I will strip you of all your coffee privileges.
Rachel pretended to think seriously about it, then asked, "Can I make a joke?"
"No."
"A limerick?"
"No." "
Can I hum the "Wedding March" as you leave?"
"No.

— Sarah Addison Allen

Autumn felt like the whole world was browned and roasted until it was so tender it was about to fall away from the bone.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“They give their hearts to easily ... true in life, not just a story!”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“And you couldn't make a snowman in your neighborhood because?
Because you weren't there.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“A happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a story. It's where the real story begins.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

Sawyer was quiet for a moment as he studied her. She wished he would take off his sunglasses. She didn't like how uncomfortable she looked.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“There was such a feeling of peace around them, it was soft and pink and smelled of butter.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“They all watched Devin run up to meet the other girls. For a moment Kate felt indescribably sad, because she couldn't go with Devin back to her childhood. She could only stand here as an adult as the distance became greater and greater until, finally, there was an ocean between them.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

I told you. I want to talk to you." "So talk," she said. "Not like this." His hand wrapped around her arm and made her stop. "I've kept my distance since you've been back, because I thought that's what you wanted. When I heard you were moving back to Mullaby, I had ... hope. But the moment i saw you again, and you gave me a look that could kill, I knew it was still too soon.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Nothing's wrong. I just can't ever seem to do enough.'
'Enough for who? Mom and Dad? You have to get over that. You're never going to be happy until you live your own life.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Daughters of the South were to their mothers what tributaries were to the main rivers they flowed into: their source of immovable strength.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“The trick to getting through life, she'd told him, is not to resent it when it isn't exactly how you think it should be.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“She would read a book hundreds of times, carrying it with her until the pages were torn and the covers were falling off, then she'd paste the covers to the ceiling where she could stare at them, like remembering a good dream.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“She saw that Devin's bedroom door was still closed, and a sudden, irrational fear gripped her that Devin might not be there. But she opened her door and saw her sleeping on her back, her limbs spread out like points of a star. Her glasses were perched on her bedside table as if watching her, as if lonely for her.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

Julia parked her truck by the Dumpster behind the restaurant and thought, what in the hell have I just done? Sawyer had gotten her so mad that she'd slept with him.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“It was hard not to feel sorry for a life that had no purpose of its own ... His only purpose, it seemed, was to come into her mother's life in order to send her home.
For that, Bay decided, she would be grateful.
For the rest, though, she wondered if she would ever be able to forgive him. She hoped she wouldn't remember him long enough to find out.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“There was a road between the but, strangely, all the cars disappeared.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Stop it, she told herself.
There was only so much she could control.
But that was just it. She was trying so hard because she felt so out of control.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Waverleys know where to find the truth, they just can't stomach it.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Not that Agatha minded anything about money. That's what happens when you have too much of it. It becomes like dust, something that constantly moves around you but that you never actually touch. She”

— Sarah Addison Allen