Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
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No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.
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I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
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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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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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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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But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.
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Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.
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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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Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
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I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has always been tough for me." I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me.
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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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I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.
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Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
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Safe is just another word for scared.
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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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How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?
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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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When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.
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He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.
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How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?
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When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.
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Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.
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She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.