“How people choose to live their lives, and who they fall in love with, should never have to be defended.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything — Sarah Addison Allen Experience Copy Share Image
First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends. — Sarah Addison Allen Ability Copy Share Image
Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it. — Sarah Addison Allen Art Copy Share Image
The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even… — 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
Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever? — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Yellow joy was radiating from her. When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours… — Sarah Addison Allen Joy Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again. — 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
“Her grandmother used to say something about how the air around you will turn white when things are about to change.” — Sarah Addison Allen Grandmother Copy Share Image
“The air outside was tomato-sweet and hickory-smoked, all at once delicious and strange. It automatically made her touch her tongue to her… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Claire lifted her glass after everyone had eaten. "Everyone make a toast. To food and flowers," she said. "To love and laughter,"… — Sarah Addison Allen Dinner party Copy Share Image
“No, you're not. Go coax the shirt off someone else. Your charm doesn't work on me. I have a force field deflecting… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She snorted. "Are you seriously asking me to have a fling with you?" "Absolutely not," he said, feigning shock. "I said dinner.… — Sarah Addison Allen Psychology Copy Share Image
“Bay looked down at the wispy dress, her fingers trailing over it. It really was perfect. It was a faded teal green… — Sarah Addison Allen Dress Copy Share Image
I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong.… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“You do realize that the longer I stay here, the more likely she is to think we're doing something scandalous." "Like what?… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write.… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can't make it good or magical. I couldn't even read a book where… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Mary had become anxious in her old age, and she hated being away from the house for long. She'd hold the girls'… — Sarah Addison Allen Autumn Copy Share Image
“Back then she used to hide from her mother in the secret space just to worry her, but now she stocked it… — Sarah Addison Allen Candy Copy Share Image
“She opened her eyes slowly and saw that a pale lavender moth had come to a rest on the back of her… — Sarah Addison Allen Imagination Copy Share Image
“The six of us formed the Women's Society Club exclusively to help Georgie. We promised that we would never turn our backs… — Sarah Addison Allen Feminism Copy Share Image
“Josey was a different person than she was even a month ago. She reminded Margaret so much now of Marco's cousins from… — Sarah Addison Allen Curly hair Copy Share Image
“He fell in love with a skinny stray cat that would skulk around the dining hall during meals. Every day, Jake would… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“The light from the moon shone along the door casing and spread across the walls a few inches inside, far enough for… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“After tidying the kitchen, Claire walked upstairs and found Tyler in the hallway, lost in thought as he rearranged his paintings hanging… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Why don't you take off your shirt?" he finally asked. "I bet you say that to all the girls.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble.” — Sarah Addison Allen Heart Copy Share Image
Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long. — Sarah Addison Allen Life 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
When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
