It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“life is too short to spend time with people' who suck the happiness "out of u"..” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Sawyer was quiet for a moment as he studied her. She wished he would take off his sunglasses. She didn't like how… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“PAXTON OSGOOD'S FUTURE HUSBAND Will be kind Will be funny Will be accepting Will be be able to cook Will be a… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“...they all watched Devin run up to meet the other girls. For a moment Kate felt indescribably sad, because she couldn't go… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“It was the truest, purest, saddest thing she had ever heard spoken. It was like hearing gospel for the first time, how… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She didn't exactly miss being that age --She'd been a college dropout and drank too much and partied too hard--but she did… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Silver sparkles from inside caught in the air and rolled in the wind past her. She took a deep breath, and it… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“There was a strange but universal understanding among women. On some level all women knew, they all understood, the fear of being… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“I'm homesick all the time," she said, still not looking at him "I just don't know where home is. There's this promise… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“His casual, almost flippant, mention of it took her by surprise and made her feel cool and tart, like tasting lime for… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She reminds me of Rapunzel. You know, like in the fairytale. The only time she leaves that house is to take her… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it,… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Because we're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it. But most… — 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
