Sarah Addison Allen Quotes - Page 3

But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.

It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.

There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

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.

It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.

Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.

But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.

Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.

Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're in the ocean and a wave hits you. It's so soft and coll that it surprised you that it has such strength.

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.

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.

Willa?" "Yes" "It's morning and I still love you.

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

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.

I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.

When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?

That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.