Food Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen

8 Food quotes by Sarah Addison Allen

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Allen’s food snippets radiate cozy charm, eight short reflections that make everyday meals feel like a comforting story.

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“The cake sitting on the dining room buffet table was wide and three layers tall. There was a fondant topper shaped like…

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“After Russell left her house that morning, Claire was a cooking fool. She finished making fig and pepper bread, and started in…

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“Mary had become anxious in her old age, and she hated being away from the house for long. She'd hold the girls'…

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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.…

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“What is this?" Emily asked, looking in the largest Styrofoam container. There was a bunch of dry-looking chopped meat inside. "Barbecue." "This…

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“Lisette set out browned chicken, warm butternut squash salad, blue potatoes, and blackberry bread with a crust of sugar that looked like…

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“As they wove their way through the crowded street, they passed numerous barbecue tents, the focus of the festival, after all. Inside…

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“Bay remembered the Waverley house full of pumpkin pie scents in the fall. There had been mountains of maple cakes with violets…

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“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…

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“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…

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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.

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Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

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“There was such a feeling of peace around them, it was soft and pink and smelled of butter.”

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“The two giant oaks in the front yard looked like flustered ladies caught mid-curtsy, their starched green leaf-dresses swaying in the wind.”

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Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.

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“After awhile, all the men wanted his opinion, and all the girls were in love with him. He made certain of it. Because he…

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People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

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“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…

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I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

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“She opened her eyes slowly and saw that a pale lavender moth had come to a rest on the back of her hand. She…

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How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

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“Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble.”

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“She knew him in that way you can only know a person you remember as a child, like if you cracked away the adult…

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