Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.
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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 looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
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He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.
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Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything
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You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?
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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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Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.
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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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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
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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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Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.
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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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How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?
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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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If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
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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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People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
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People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.
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After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
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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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Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.
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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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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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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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When someone needs help, you help. Right?
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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 always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.
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Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
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It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
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