--- title: "4 Allie Larkin Quotes" description: "Allison Larkin is an American author. Under the pen name Allie Larkin, she published the novels Stay (2010), Why Can't I Be You (2013), and Swimming for..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-allie-larkin-71952.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Allie Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-allie-larkin-71952.jpg) # Allie Larkin **4** quotes in **7** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Allison Larkin is an American author. Under the pen name Allie Larkin, she published the novels Stay (2010), Why Can't I Be You (2013), and Swimming for Sunlight (2019). Her fourth and fifth novels, The People We Keep (2021) and Home of the American Circus (2025), were published under her full name ## Quotes by Allie Larkin > [“It's hard to look at it like that, isn't it? Because if you can be a better parent than the ones you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allie-larkin/it-s-hard-to-look-at-it-like-that-isn-t-it-because-if-you-can-be-a/) [Allie Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allie-larkin/) [Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/290/allie-larkin-71952_hands-together_it-s-hard-to-look-at-it-like-that-isn-t_1397085.jpg) > [“i found the food Alex recommended. Newman's Own Organic Chicken and Rice kibble. . . . i wished Paul Newman made human kibble too.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allie-larkin/i-found-the-food-alex-recommended-newman-s-own-organic-chicken-and/) [Allie Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allie-larkin/) [Food](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/food/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69f/allie-larkin-71952_food_i-found-the-food-alex-recommended-newman_2105252.jpg) > [“We checked ourselves in the mirror before we left. We were flushed and a little rumpled, but in a good way. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allie-larkin/we-checked-ourselves-in-the-mirror-before-we-left-we-were-flushed-and/) [Allie Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allie-larkin/) [Female friendship](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/female-friendship/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87a/allie-larkin-71952_female-friendship_we-checked-ourselves-in-the-mirror-befor_3159282.jpg) > [“Sometimes when an opportunity is in front of you, you’re so busy asking if you’re good enough for the challenge, you forget…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allie-larkin/sometimes-when-an-opportunity-is-in-front-of-you-you-re-so-busy/) [Allie Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allie-larkin/) [Good enough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-enough/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f3/allie-larkin-71952_good-enough_sometimes-when-an-opportunity-is-in-fron_3191333.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allie-larkin/#itemlist", "name": "Allie Larkin Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It's hard to look at it like that, isn't it? 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