“You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again. ”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“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, quote from Garden Spells
“When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Summer was a lady who didn't give up her spotlight easily.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren’t. Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they got older.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“All this from one kiss. If we ever make love, I'm going to need a week to recover.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
“Take one man, one foolish woman, put them together in a bowl and stir.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, quote from Garden Spells
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“To think Viviane was beautiful required a certain acquired taste. It was the kind of beauty perceived only through the eyes of love.”
― Leslye Walton, quote from The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
“The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Hunting Ground
“Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.”
― E.M. Forster, quote from Maurice
“Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be, whether a long string of perfectly blue days that begin and end in golden dimness, the most seemingly chaotic political acts, the rise of a great city, the crystalline structure of a gem that has never seen the light, the distributions of fortune, what time the milkman gets up, the position of the electron, or the occurrence of one astonishing frigid winter after another. Even electrons, supposedly the paragons of unpredictability, are tame and obsequious little creatures that rush around at the speed of light, going precisely where they are supposed to go. They make faint whistling sounds that when apprehended in varying combinations are as pleasant as the wind flying through a forest, and they do exactly as they are told. Of this, one is certain.
And yet, there is a wonderful anarchy, in that the milkman chooses when to arise, the rat picks the tunnel into which he will dive when the subway comes rushing down the track from Borough Hall, and the snowflake will fall as it will. How can this be? If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined, it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined. No matter, it all happened at once, in less than an instant, and time was invented because we cannot comprehend in one glance the enormous and detailed canvas that we have been given - so we track it, in linear fashion piece by piece. Time however can be easily overcome; not by chasing the light, but by standing back far enough to see it all at once. The universe is still and complete. Everything that ever was is; everything that ever will be is - and so on, in all possible combinations. Though in perceiving it we image that it is in motion, and unfinished, it is quite finished and quite astonishingly beautiful. In the end, or rather, as things really are, any event, no matter how small, is intimately and sensibly tied to all others. All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.”
― Mark Helprin, quote from Winter's Tale
“He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on the fire.”
― Pete Hamill, quote from Forever
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