Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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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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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
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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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She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.
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Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
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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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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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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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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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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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Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
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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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Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.
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Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything
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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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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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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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He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.
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Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.
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I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.
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The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
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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?