It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade. — Sarah Addison Allen Color Copy Share Image
To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Kate's stomach trembled with that particular anxiety that always heralded something good.” — Sarah Addison Allen Anxiety Copy Share Image
Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere. — Sarah Addison Allen Life Copy Share Image
“Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have.” — Sarah Addison Allen Innovation Copy Share Image
He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow… — Sarah Addison Allen Faces Copy Share Image
“If she'd been a color, she would have been bright green. If she'd been a scent, she would have been new paper.… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Julia was like water in his hands. She'd slipped right through. Lovely and strange and unpredictable, she'd been everything he wasn't. Nothing… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“The thought of hovering above the earth, weightless in a lilac sky, appealed to her, in the same way imaginary friends appealed… — Sarah Addison Allen Friendship Copy Share Image
“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 Grandmother Copy Share Image
“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 Image
She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull… — Sarah Addison Allen Desire Copy Share Image
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult. — Sarah Addison Allen Adults Copy Share Image
“Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs… — Sarah Addison Allen Christmas lights Copy Share Image
Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful,… — Sarah Addison Allen Apples 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 Future husband Copy Share Image
“It was natural, she supposed, to be tense around him. Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of… — Sarah Addison Allen High school Copy Share Image
“Bulahdeen ignored her. "I taught literature for nearly forty years. The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I… — Sarah Addison Allen Books Copy Share Image
You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about… — Sarah Addison Allen Don't change Copy Share Image
“The Ferris wheel came to a stop two seats down from the top. "I've been thinking about you a lot this past… — Sarah Addison Allen Ferris wheel Copy Share Image
“Josey?” She heard her mother’s voice in the hall, then the thud of her cane as she came closer. “Please don’t tell… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“When Paxton was a teenager, her friends had even envied her relationship with her mother. Everyone knew that neither Paxton nor Sophia… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Nova Berry looked like a hickory switch- tall, thin and knobby. She could trace her family line back hundreds of years in… — Sarah Addison Allen Herbal medicine Copy Share Image
“The townhouse was in a community called Waterview, a pretty green place with a common that had a gazebo and a fountain.… — Sarah Addison Allen Dream house Copy Share Image
“What is this?" Emily asked, looking in the largest Styrofoam container. There was a bunch of dry-looking chopped meat inside. "Barbecue." "This… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why Morris women were what they were.… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She'd been there for a few hours when Sawyer showed up. It was after midnight, but there he was, walking around the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Marco Cirrini had been skiing on the north face of Bald Slope Mountain since he was a boy, using the old skis… — Sarah Addison Allen Fifteen years Copy Share Image
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away — Sarah Addison Allen Devil 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 lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back. — Sarah Addison Allen Finding happiness Copy Share Image
The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy. — Sarah Addison Allen Candy Copy Share Image
