“She was wearing blue jeans and a dark blue peasant blouse, the ties of the neck open. She looked so beautiful and… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She wrote the names of the day's cakes on the board: traditional Southern red velvet cake and peach pound cake, but also… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Julia laughed. It was a great laugh, and hearing it was like stepping into a pot of sunshine. That she came bearing… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and… — Sarah Addison Allen 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 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
