“You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen 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 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
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
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“ Just So You Know You fall in love with every book you touch. You never break the spine or tear the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room." She had laughed and said,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“There was such a feeling of peace around them, it was soft and pink and smelled of butter.” — Sarah Addison Allen 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
“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 Image
People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted. — 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 knew that… — 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
“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 Image
