Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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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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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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Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
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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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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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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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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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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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The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
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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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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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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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Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.
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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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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 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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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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When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.
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She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
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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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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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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.