Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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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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Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.
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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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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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I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.
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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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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
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How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?
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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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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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The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
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I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
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Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.
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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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Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
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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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Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.