Top 25 Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen of 136 - Page 6

He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.

He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.

Sarah Addison Allen

Believe, Weather, Kind

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.160, Bantam

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

Sarah Addison Allen

Trying, Finding Happiness, Lost

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.76, Bantam

He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

Sarah Addison Allen

Swimming, Differences, Effort

Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.167, Bantam

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

Sarah Addison Allen

Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.3, Bantam

She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.

Sarah Addison Allen

Daughter, Dream, Strong

Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.21, Bantam

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

Sarah Addison Allen

World, Tongue, Wanted

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.14, Bantam

Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.

Sarah Addison Allen

Girl

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.16, Bantam

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

Sarah Addison Allen

Book, Looks, Accepted

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.36, Bantam

To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.

Sarah Addison Allen

Kissing, Water, This Day

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.37, Bantam

He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.

Sarah Addison Allen

Taken, Heart, Sleep

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.23, Bantam