Top 149 Quotes & Sayings by Sarah Addison Allen - Page 3

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

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

It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

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

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.

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 took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

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

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

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.

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

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.