Sarah Addison Allen famous quotes

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Happiness #Risk #Littles

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.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Daughter #Book #Cat

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Space #Littles #Rooms

Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Fate #Past #Promise

I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Moving #Home #Moon

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?
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Selfish #Insecure #Scared

Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Morning #Memories #Coffee

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

#People #Trying #Making Friends

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Freedom #Needed

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Sweet #Morning #Next

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Kissing #Thinking #Heaven

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

#Inspirational #Fall #Cat

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#World #Mood

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.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Book #Mind #Stories

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Autumn #Fruit #Aging

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Southern #Tears #Peaches

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Writing #Ideas #Stories

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Regret #Life Is Too Short #Long

Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Distance #Grandmother #Sky

People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#People #Grows

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.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Strong #Love You #Trying

Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Together #Looks #Reassurance

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.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Book #Years #Stories

Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Ice #Expectations #Chocolate

Willa?" "Yes" "It's morning and I still love you.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Morning #Love You #Stills

You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Dying #Trying #Finding Happiness

To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Football #Regret #Thinking

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.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Growing Up #Teenager #Luxury

Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#People #Doubt #Ability

It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Sky #Color #Evening

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

#People #Long #Together

Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Memories #Peaches #Grew

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Strange #Quiet #Unfinished

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

#Believe #Believe In Me

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

#Falling In Love #Fall #People

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

#Dream #Thinking #Giving

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Empty #Feels

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

#Long #Realizing

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

#Book #Reading #Chocolate

Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Hurt #Sorry #Men

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

#Falling In Love #Knowing #People

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

#Opportunity #Missing #Cups

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

#Autumn #Cinnamon #World

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

#Memories #Blow #Childhood

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Soul #Stubborn #Changing Your Life

Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Real #Heart #Magic

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Letting Go #Firsts #Frost

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Mother #Children #Crazy

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

#Air

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Thinking #Magic #Want

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

#Trying #Needs #Fit

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Fall #Hands #Needs

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.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Home #Air #Smell

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Dignity #Compromise #Should

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Life Is

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#True Friend #Sticks #Would Be

We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet.
-- 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

#Daughter #Dream #Strong

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over...
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Men #Trying #Way

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

#Swimming #Differences #Effort

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

#Trying #Finding Happiness #Lost

...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Hands #Water #Still Waters

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

#Hurt #Vulnerable #Spots

Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Men

I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Giving #One Day #Remember

I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#People #Break #Should

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

#People #Way #Curious

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Able #Want #Remember