“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
“Selma stood. "You can put a tuxedo on a goat, but it's still a goat." "No, it's not," Bulahdeen said. "It's a… — Sarah Addison Allen Tuxedo Goat 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
“There were some things that hadn't changed about Sydney, like her light-brown hair that had just enough natural curl to make it… — Sarah Addison Allen Brown hair 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
“I'm homesick all the time," she said, still not looking at him "I just don't know where home is. There's this promise… — Sarah Addison Allen Feel 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
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
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
“When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright… — Sarah Addison Allen Happy Copy Share Image
But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat… — Sarah Addison Allen Be grateful 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
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
“She had lived thirty-four years keeping everything inside, and now she was letting everything go, like butterflies released from a box. They… — Sarah Addison Allen Claire-waverley Copy Share Image
“The front door opened as he walked up the steps, and she appeared like a spirit in a black dress. She didn't… — Sarah Addison Allen Adam-boswell Copy Share Image
“The morning sun on her white hair and pale face made her seem almost translucent. She'd been a beautiful woman in her… — Sarah Addison Allen Beautiful woman Copy Share Image
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it,… — Sarah Addison Allen Connected Copy Share Image
“The boy who had given her that last best summer was now this handsome unfamiliar man. And yet, she knew him. She… — Sarah Addison Allen Children Copy Share Image
“The smell of peppery warm cheese and thick, yeasty grilled bread was beginning to fill the air. She would give the sandwich… — Sarah Addison Allen Candy Copy Share Image
“So you stay, you don't tell anyone, is that it?" "Sure," Della Lee said easily. "That's blackmail." "Add it to my list… — Sarah Addison Allen Blackmail Copy Share Image
“One thing Billy knew that most people don't know is that the longer you have a wish, the closer you get to… — Sarah Addison Allen Wish Copy Share Image
If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to… — Sarah Addison Allen Air Copy Share Image