Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
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He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.
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Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.
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It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.
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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.
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Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.
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I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
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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.
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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.
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For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
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The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.
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It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
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It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.
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Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.
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Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything
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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.
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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?
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Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .
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Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?
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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.