Writer Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen

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When you’re drawn to magical realism with a gentle touch, Sarah Addison Allen’s nine brief lines provide a quick, warm glimpse into her lyrical, heart‑centered storytelling.

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She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

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“Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”

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Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still…

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My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for…

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“Bulahdeen ignored her. "I taught literature for nearly forty years. The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I…

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“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like…

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“Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room." She had laughed and said,…

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Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like…

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“ Just So You Know You fall in love with every book you touch. You never break the spine or tear the…

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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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