People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long. — Sarah Addison Allen Life Copy Share Image
Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older. — 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
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
Her friendship . . . still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment… — Sarah Addison Allen Breathing Copy Share Image
“There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into… — Sarah Addison Allen Attraction Copy Share Image
“Embarrassed, she quickly met his eyes again. It looked like he come right out of the lake water and made a beeline… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn't he have just stayed buried? No good had… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“I thought it was amazing that I could get a diploma just for reading fiction. It was like being able to major… — Sarah Addison Allen Books Copy Share Image
She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and… — Sarah Addison Allen Mississippi Copy Share Image
But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“I told you. I want to talk to you." "So talk," she said. "Not like this." His hand wrapped around her arm… — Sarah Addison Allen Hope Copy Share Image
“There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air… — Sarah Addison Allen Baking Copy Share Image
“But then he would come home...and he would feel a strange sensation, like his feet growing heavy. It was as if he… — Sarah Addison Allen Mind Copy Share Image
“Willa said happiness means taking risks. And if you're not a little scared, you're not doing it right." That made him laugh,… — Sarah Addison Allen Happiness Copy Share Image
“Josey shook her head, thinking, if Della Lee were a candy, she would be a SweeTart. Not the hard kind that broke… — Sarah Addison Allen Candy Copy Share Image
“But she stopped herself. That wouldn't make it right. You didn't forgive because it was the only choice you thought you had.… — Sarah Addison Allen Cheating 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
“He was not going to move on until she let go of him, of her guilt. And that was one thing she… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“He claimed the waters must have, indeed, been healing, because look how hard his journey was on him to get there, and… — Sarah Addison Allen Hard journey 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
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“The smell of rosin was strong. It reminded her of Christmas wreaths and red glass ornaments. It was a completely different world,… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“They were wounded. They were victims. If only they had everything they'd ever wanted, then they'd be okay. But because they didn't,… — Sarah Addison Allen Victims Copy Share Image
“We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back… — Sarah Addison Allen Community Copy Share Image
He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t sure exactly when it happened when she had realized that she could only make one of them happy. She only… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“The sky was incredible that night, the moon nearly full and the stars littering the sky like tossed stones.” — Sarah Addison Allen Astronomy 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
