“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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“It was like working in a dark cave with the aid of a single candle. Just when you thought you had spotted the white light of Truth, you would chase it, only to discover that it was someone else, also holding a candle, also looking for the light. A”
― quote from From Beirut to Jerusalem
“How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.”
― Steven Johnson, quote from The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
“But what I really needed was a mom. I still wanted to take advantage of that free laundry service at home. I wasn’t about to turn away the homemade potato-chip casseroles or her famous turkey tacos. I didn’t even mind when the “chore chart” was put up on the fridge. That was the normalcy I craved. I wanted Mom to continue to bring warm cookies to the set, making me the guy with the best mom around.”
― Kirk Cameron, quote from Still Growing: An Autobiography
“Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembrance of things past.”
― Tony Horwitz, quote from Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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