Grandmother Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen

8 Grandmother quotes by Sarah Addison Allen

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Sarah Addison Allen’s eight brief thoughts about grandmothers carry her signature gentle, magical realism. The snippets give a quick feel for how she honors that bond.

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“She'd just walked into heaven. And her grandmother was right there, in every scent. Sugary and sweet. Herby and sharp. Yeasty and…

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Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets…

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Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .

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“Willa had always thought her grandmother was sweet, but she'd been one of those people with invisible thorns, preventing others from getting…

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“Mom! Look. This one is my favorite," Devin said, pulling out a faded pink dress with a red plaid sash. The crinoline…

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“She had lived thirty-four years keeping everything inside, and now she was letting everything go, like butterflies released from a box. They…

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“Her grandmother had a life, a life Claire hadn't known about or even imagined. She had tried so hard to know everything…

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“Her grandmother used to say something about how the air around you will turn white when things are about to change.”

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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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