“She'd just walked into heaven. And her grandmother was right there, in every scent. Sugary and sweet. Herby and sharp. Yeasty and… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . . — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Willa had always thought her grandmother was sweet, but she'd been one of those people with invisible thorns, preventing others from getting… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Mom! Look. This one is my favorite," Devin said, pulling out a faded pink dress with a red plaid sash. The crinoline… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She had lived thirty-four years keeping everything inside, and now she was letting everything go, like butterflies released from a box. They… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Her grandmother had a life, a life Claire hadn't known about or even imagined. She had tried so hard to know everything… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Her grandmother used to say something about how the air around you will turn white when things are about to change.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“It feels like he's taken your heart, doesn't it?…Like he's reached in and pulled it out from you. And I bet he smiles like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
“Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
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. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
“There was such a feeling of peace around them, it was soft and pink and smelled of butter.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
“The two giant oaks in the front yard looked like flustered ladies caught mid-curtsy, their starched green leaf-dresses swaying in the wind.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
“After awhile, all the men wanted his opinion, and all the girls were in love with him. He made certain of it. Because he… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
“She wasn’t sure exactly when it happened when she had realized that she could only make one of them happy. She only knew that… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
“She opened her eyes slowly and saw that a pale lavender moth had come to a rest on the back of her hand. She… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
“She knew him in that way you can only know a person you remember as a child, like if you cracked away the adult… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share
