Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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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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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.
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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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He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.
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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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Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.
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I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.
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He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.
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Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.
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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
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Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer's progress, helpless, almost as if they couldn't look away. "They remind you of something good--picnics or carrying sparklers around at night. Southern men will hold doors open for you, they'll hold you after you yell at them, and they'll hold on to their pride no matter what. Be careful what they tell you, though. They have a way of making you believe anything, because they say it that way.
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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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Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
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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.
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Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.
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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.
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The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
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It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.