Sarah Addison Allen Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
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“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”
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“Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.”
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“Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. 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 past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.”
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“I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.”
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“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, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?”
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“Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.”
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“She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.”
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“I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.”
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“The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.”
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“I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”
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“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”
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“How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.”
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“After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.”
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“She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.”
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“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.”
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“My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.”
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“People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.”
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“Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .”
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“People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.”
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“She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.”
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“Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.”
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“To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.”
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“Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.”
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“Willa?" "Yes" "It's morning and I still love you.”
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“You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.”
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“To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.”
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“When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.”
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“Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.”
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“It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.”
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