It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us. — Sarah Addison Allen Choose Copy Share Image
“...she seethed like water the second before it rolls to a boil.” — Sarah Addison Allen Water Copy Share Image
“You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.” — Sarah Addison Allen Came Copy Share Image
He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather. — Sarah Addison Allen Believe Copy Share Image
The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy. — Sarah Addison Allen Candy Copy Share Image
“..And where a neighbour bakes hummingbird cakes in the hope of bringing back a lost love.” — Sarah Addison Allen Hope Copy Share Image
“Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.” — Sarah Addison Allen Action Copy Share Image
People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted. — Sarah Addison Allen Change Copy Share Image
“If she'd been a color, she would have been bright green. If she'd been a scent, she would have been new paper.… — Sarah Addison Allen Green Copy Share Image
“The world was not like him and was not going to change for him. The trick to getting through life, she'd told… — Sarah Addison Allen Getting through life Copy Share Image
“Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A… — Sarah Addison Allen Happy childhood Copy Share Image
“He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side.” — Sarah Addison Allen Garden Copy Share Image
She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull… — Sarah Addison Allen Desire 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 Adults 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… — Sarah Addison Allen Imagining Copy Share Image
“Bay remembered the Waverley house full of pumpkin pie scents in the fall. There had been mountains of maple cakes with violets… — Sarah Addison Allen Autumn Copy Share Image
“The Ferris wheel came to a stop two seats down from the top. "I've been thinking about you a lot this past… — Sarah Addison Allen Ferris wheel Copy Share Image
When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful,… — Sarah Addison Allen Apples Copy Share Image
“PAXTON OSGOOD'S FUTURE HUSBAND Will be kind Will be funny Will be accepting Will be be able to cook Will be a… — Sarah Addison Allen Future husband Copy Share Image
“...they all watched Devin run up to meet the other girls. For a moment Kate felt indescribably sad, because she couldn't go… — Sarah Addison Allen Time 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.… — Sarah Addison Allen Love Copy Share Image
“Ariel looked queenly and elegant and ten years younger than her real age. Like Emma, her hair was blond and her boobs… — Sarah Addison Allen Southern belle Copy Share Image
“There were crooked photos on the wall of Della Lee as a child, with dark hair and eyes. Josey wondered when she… — Sarah Addison Allen Children Copy Share Image
“In the autumn, the entire backyard became a mass of lollipop-yellow leaves, so bright they lit up the night like daylight. Birds… — Sarah Addison Allen Autumn Copy Share Image
“He was a hearty, gregarious man. He was rich, but newly rich, and so very sincere about it. He lacked the natural… — Sarah Addison Allen Capacity to love Copy Share Image
“She'd been there for a few hours when Sawyer showed up. It was after midnight, but there he was, walking around the… — Sarah Addison Allen Sawyer Copy Share Image
“There were crooked photos on the wall of Della Lee as a child, with dark hair and eyes. Josey wondered when she… — Sarah Addison Allen Bedrooms Copy Share Image
“She went to the window. A fine sheen of sugary frost covered everything in sight, and white smoke rose from chimneys in… — Sarah Addison Allen Cold air 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 Beautiful daughter Copy Share Image
“I make a great fried egg sandwich. Want to try it?" Chloe stared at her with an encouraging smile until Josey finally… — Sarah Addison Allen Business card Copy Share Image
“Willa had always thought her grandmother was sweet, but she'd been one of those people with invisible thorns, preventing others from getting… — Sarah Addison Allen Georgie-jackson Copy Share Image
“Mary had become anxious in her old age, and she hated being away from the house for long. She'd hold the girls'… — Sarah Addison Allen Autumn Copy Share Image
...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup. — Sarah Addison Allen Maple syrup 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 Ahead Copy Share Image
“Ice queens didn't break, after all. They melted. And Marco didn't have enough warmth for that.” — Sarah Addison Allen Flower Copy Share Image
How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us? — Sarah Addison Allen Charity Copy Share Image
“The comfort of browning butter and the excitement of lemon zest.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something. — Sarah Addison Allen Adventure Copy Share Image
Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. — Sarah Addison Allen Air Copy Share Image
“There was such a feeling of peace around them, it was soft and pink and smelled of butter.” — Sarah Addison Allen Feeling Copy Share Image
