“Jack seemed kind. He was craggy and athletic, with lines like parentheses around his mouth, as if everything he wanted to say… — Sarah Addison Allen Jack Copy Share Image
“Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But… — Sarah Addison Allen Fate Copy Share Image
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can… — Sarah Addison Allen Book Copy Share Image
She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way… — Sarah Addison Allen Bears Copy Share Image
“She knew him in that way you can only know a person you remember as a child, like if you cracked away… — Sarah Addison Allen Children Copy Share Image
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He… — Sarah Addison Allen Attention 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… — Sarah Addison Allen Broke Copy Share Image
“He lifted up on one elbow and looked down at her. What she wouldn't give to see what he saw, to know… — Sarah Addison Allen Lifted Copy Share Image
I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time… — Sarah Addison Allen Caught Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the best endings are the ones that surprise you. Sometimes, the best are the ones that have everything happening exactly how… — Sarah Addison Allen Endings Copy Share Image
“The scent spread through the house like a long, soft blanket, settling over everything, calming all worries. The labels on all the… — Sarah Addison Allen Waverleys Copy Share Image
He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to… — Sarah Addison Allen Differences Copy Share Image
“He'd always liked the way Josey smelled. He thought about how she was wearing her curly black hair down that night, how… — Sarah Addison Allen Black hair Copy Share Image
“A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and… — Sarah Addison Allen Cake Copy Share Image
“Sure enough, Emily's eyes were right to him. And he seemed to know exactly when it happened, because he looked up and… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write.… — Sarah Addison Allen About Copy Share Image
“Lisette was born without the ability to speak, but she'd been brazen with written words as a child, substituting a sharp tongue… — Sarah Addison Allen Children Copy Share Image
Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets… — Sarah Addison Allen Children Copy Share Image
It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good. — Sarah Addison Allen Breakfast Copy Share Image
“Lisette set out browned chicken, warm butternut squash salad, blue potatoes, and blackberry bread with a crust of sugar that looked like… — Sarah Addison Allen Food Copy Share Image
“Kate picked up the carafe and poured some coffee into a cup. She added sugar and cream until it was the color… — Sarah Addison Allen Caramel Copy Share Image
She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people. — Sarah Addison Allen Friends Copy Share Image
“She was willow-branch thin, had a cap of yellow hair, and a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the… — Sarah Addison Allen Emily-benedict Copy Share Image
“But Eby didn't say anything. She could fix a lot of things, but family wasn't one of them. It was one of… — Sarah Addison Allen Family Copy Share Image
“He wasn't used to people saying no, and Eby felt sorry for him, the way she'd always felt sorry for those who… — Sarah Addison Allen Enough Copy Share Image
But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it,… — Sarah Addison Allen Believe Copy Share Image
Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . . — Sarah Addison Allen Distance Copy Share Image
“You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the… — Sarah Addison Allen Life Copy Share Image
“Everyone is here to say good-bye. It's what people do when they go their separate ways. They say good-bye. I've done it… — Sarah Addison Allen Separate ways Copy Share Image
Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in.… — Sarah Addison Allen Fall Copy Share Image
“It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they… — Sarah Addison Allen Behavior Copy Share Image
He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk… — Sarah Addison Allen Persons Copy Share Image
Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can't make it good or magical. I couldn't even read a book where… — Sarah Addison Allen About Copy Share Image
I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong.… — Sarah Addison Allen About Copy Share Image
She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of… — Sarah Addison Allen Crazy Copy Share Image
“She was wearing blue jeans and a dark blue peasant blouse, the ties of the neck open. She looked so beautiful and… — Sarah Addison Allen Blue jeans Copy Share Image
“Julia laughed. It was a great laugh, and hearing it was like stepping into a pot of sunshine. That she came bearing… — Sarah Addison Allen Julia-winterson Copy Share Image
“You asked what the wallpaper was in Mom's old room. It's lilacs." "Ah. It was always flowers, usually roses, when she was… — Sarah Addison Allen Another time Copy Share Image
“This past year, sometimes I would get up in the mornings and actually look forward to going to school because I knew… — Sarah Addison Allen Lunch Copy Share Image
“He ignored that and sat on her towel at her feet. She could see her reflection in his sunglasses as he stared… — Sarah Addison Allen Cold shoulder Copy Share Image