“... one of those people with invisible thorns, preventing others from getting too close.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right. — Sarah Addison Allen Happiness Copy Share Image
If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere. — Sarah Addison Allen Life Copy Share Image
The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back. — Sarah Addison Allen Finding happiness Copy Share Image
Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away — Sarah Addison Allen Devil Copy Share Image
“Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have.” — Sarah Addison Allen Innovation Copy Share Image
It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their… — Sarah Addison Allen Helplessness Copy Share Image
“I'm glad my condo was furnished. Because, how do you buy a couch? I have no idea. This grown-up thing isn’t for… — Sarah Addison Allen Adulting Copy Share Image
“It’s hubris to think you’re the only person who can make another happy. Some people simply have the ability to make it… — Sarah Addison Allen Attention Copy Share Image
“Daughters of the South were to their mothers what tributaries were to the main rivers they flowed into: their source of immovable… — Sarah Addison Allen Daughters 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 Copy Share Image
He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow… — Sarah Addison Allen Faces Copy Share Image
“They laughed, and she suddenly felt like she was on such good footing with Willa. She never thought she was good at… — Sarah Addison Allen Friendship Copy Share Image
“She'd just walked into heaven. And her grandmother was right there, in every scent. Sugary and sweet. Herby and sharp. Yeasty and… — Sarah Addison Allen Grandmother Copy Share Image
“Just as she was about to turn, she caught a whiff of something sweet. She inhaled deeply, instinctively wanting to savor it,… — Sarah Addison Allen Bitter taste 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs… — Sarah Addison Allen Christmas lights Copy Share Image
“She bought a plume of blue cotton candy before they left the food booths, and she picked at it while they headed… — Sarah Addison Allen Cotton candy Copy Share Image
“He shook his head. "Uh-uh. That's not going to work anymore. You can be as hard and sarcastic as you want, but… — Sarah Addison Allen Sarcastic Copy Share Image
“She wrote the names of the day's cakes on the board: traditional Southern red velvet cake and peach pound cake, but also… — Sarah Addison Allen Baker Copy Share Image
Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long… — Sarah Addison Allen Aa meeting Copy Share Image
“He could make her forget that it was desperation. He could make her forget everything. And this small room couldn't contain what… — Sarah Addison Allen Desperation Copy Share Image
“When Paxton was a teenager, her friends had even envied her relationship with her mother. Everyone knew that neither Paxton nor Sophia… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Josey?” She heard her mother’s voice in the hall, then the thud of her cane as she came closer. “Please don’t tell… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“The picnic table in the photo was an old door set up on sawhorses, and the seats were old tree stumps, or… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“After tidying the kitchen, Claire walked upstairs and found Tyler in the hallway, lost in thought as he rearranged his paintings hanging… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Where are you going?" he asked as she clomped down the bleachers in her heavy black boots. "I don't know." "I'll walk… — Sarah Addison Allen Black boots Copy Share Image
“You have a cat," she said, surprised. It was an odd-looking cat with no hair on its back and strange ears, but… — Sarah Addison Allen Beauty Copy Share Image
“She didn't realize she was staring at him until he turned to stare back. The air around them suddenly changed. She was… — Sarah Addison Allen Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“Despite the cold outside, she was wearing a cropped white shirt and tight dark blue jeans that sat low, revealing a tattoo… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Kate's stomach trembled with that particular anxiety that always heralded something good.” — Sarah Addison Allen Anxiety Copy Share Image
To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“life is too short to spend time with people' who suck the happiness "out of u"..” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right? — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery. — Sarah Addison Allen Friends Copy Share Image
