“She knew him in that way you can only know a person you remember as a child, like if you cracked away… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Lisette was born without the ability to speak, but she'd been brazen with written words as a child, substituting a sharp tongue… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“There were crooked photos on the wall of Della Lee as a child, with dark hair and eyes. Josey wondered when she… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She'd been a beautiful woman in her day, delicate and trim, blue-eyed and fair-haired. There was a certain power beautiful mothers held… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“The boy who had given her that last best summer was now this handsome unfamiliar man. And yet, she knew him. She… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters. — 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
“There were crooked photos on the wall of Della Lee as a child, with dark hair and eyes. Josey wondered when she… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“I'm not a child, Grandpa Vance. Wallpaper doesn't change on its own." Instead of arguing, he asked, "What did it change to?"… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone. — 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
