Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
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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 the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.
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Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.
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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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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.
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If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.
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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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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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Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.
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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
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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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Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
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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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I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
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He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.
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Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything
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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
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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.
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It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
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Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.
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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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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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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.