Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you. — Sarah Addison Allen Adolescence Copy Share Image
Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt. — Sarah Addison Allen Expectations Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips. — Sarah Addison Allen Alice Copy Share Image
First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate. — Sarah Addison Allen Celebrate Copy Share Image
“How people choose to live their lives, and who they fall in love with, should never have to be defended.” — Sarah Addison Allen Choose Copy Share Image
There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters. — Sarah Addison Allen Beautiful Copy Share Image
Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything — Sarah Addison Allen Experience Copy Share Image
“Summer was a lady who didn't give up her spotlight easily.” — Sarah Addison Allen Garden Copy Share Image
“Sawyer was quiet for a moment as he studied her. She wished he would take off his sunglasses. She didn't like how… — Sarah Addison Allen Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Even at seventy-four, with a limp from a hip replacement, Margaret could still enter a room and fill it like perfume.” — Sarah Addison Allen Hip Replacement Copy Share Image
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different… — Sarah Addison Allen Different Copy Share Image
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the… — Sarah Addison Allen Cat Copy Share Image
The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla… — Sarah Addison Allen Bubbles Copy Share Image
“It was the truest, purest, saddest thing she had ever heard spoken. It was like hearing gospel for the first time, how… — Sarah Addison Allen Christianity Copy Share Image
“History is a loop. We're exactly where they stood twenty years ago. What's theirs is ours, what's ours will become theirs.” — Sarah Addison Allen History Copy Share Image
Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they… — Sarah Addison Allen Confidence Copy Share Image
“After Russell left her house that morning, Claire was a cooking fool. She finished making fig and pepper bread, and started in… — Sarah Addison Allen Claire-waverley Copy Share Image
“No, you're not. Go coax the shirt off someone else. Your charm doesn't work on me. I have a force field deflecting… — Sarah Addison Allen Gaze Copy Share Image
“Claire lifted her glass after everyone had eaten. "Everyone make a toast. To food and flowers," she said. "To love and laughter,"… — Sarah Addison Allen Dinner party Copy Share Image
“The cake sitting on the dining room buffet table was wide and three layers tall. There was a fondant topper shaped like… — Sarah Addison Allen Cake 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… — Sarah Addison Allen Feels Copy Share Image
“The outside world might have finally turned into autumn, but inside the Waverley house it still smelled of summer. It was lemon… — Sarah Addison Allen Autumn Copy Share Image
“Eby wanted to say so much to her. She wanted to say that waking up is the most important part of grieving,… — Sarah Addison Allen Family Copy Share Image
“She had beautiful pale skin, which was a stark contrast to her dark eyes and hair, like black marble and snow. It… — Sarah Addison Allen Dark eyes 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 Blue dress Copy Share Image
“As they wove their way through the crowded street, they passed numerous barbecue tents, the focus of the festival, after all. Inside… — Sarah Addison Allen Assembly line Copy Share Image
She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as… — Sarah Addison Allen Age Copy Share Image
“You're suddenly quiet." He watched her swallow. "I don't understand how you do this to me." He leaned in slightly. His hair… — Sarah Addison Allen Smelled Copy Share Image
“There was a strange but universal understanding among women. On some level all women knew, they all understood, the fear of being… — Sarah Addison Allen Collective unconscious Copy Share Image
“At the end of the evening, Paxton and Willa walked Agatha out to the nurse's car, after Agatha had given them a… — Sarah Addison Allen Brown sugar Copy Share Image
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen Asking Copy Share Image
“ Just So You Know You fall in love with every book you touch. You never break the spine or tear the… — Sarah Addison Allen Books Copy Share Image
Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper. — Sarah Addison Allen Bridges Copy Share Image
“But he’d been looking for an excuse. He didn’t do it for her. She could have been anyone.” — Sarah Addison Allen Excuse Copy Share Image
Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know. — Sarah Addison Allen Fool Copy Share Image
“All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one.” — Sarah Addison Allen Caught Copy Share Image
“Belong has always been tough for me." "I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me.” — Sarah Addison Allen Belong Copy Share Image
Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences. — Sarah Addison Allen Action Copy Share Image
“I maced people for you," WIlla said; "you've got me for life” — Sarah Addison Allen Life Copy Share Image
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. — Sarah Addison Allen Able Copy Share Image
