Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.
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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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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
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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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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.
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She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
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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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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
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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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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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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.
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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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He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.
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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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Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
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Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything
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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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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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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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Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.
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Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
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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.
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The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
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I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.