“I like your mom," Adam said as they watched her walk away. "She's a saint." "Jake," his father called. "And that's the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult. — 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
“Did you get rid of that sweater like I asked?" "Yes, Mother," Josey said. "I wasn't trying to be mean the other… — 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
“Mom! Look. This one is my favorite," Devin said, pulling out a faded pink dress with a red plaid sash. The crinoline… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“In the inky stillness of the next morning, Lisette woke up and dressed quietly in the silks her elderly mother still sent… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Back then she used to hide from her mother in the secret space just to worry her, but now she stocked it… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Marco Cirrini had been skiing on the north face of Bald Slope Mountain since he was a boy, using the old skis… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Josey?” She heard her mother’s voice in the hall, then the thud of her cane as she came closer. “Please don’t tell… — 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
“Daughters of the South were to their mothers what tributaries were to the main rivers they flowed into: their source of immovable… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“When Paxton was a teenager, her friends had even envied her relationship with her mother. Everyone knew that neither Paxton nor Sophia… — 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
