“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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“But the next noise to echo through the hall was one I was pretty sure I recognized. It was the unmistakable sound of the shit hitting the fan.”
― Nicole Peeler, quote from Tempest Rising
“Some things you just have to take on faith and believe in at the risk of getting hurt. It's one of the things that the Fair Folk will never understand, and it's something that sets us apart from them. The fact that each and every time we believe in each other we take a risk. Because we know that it might NOT be the truth. But we also know that it MIGHT be.”
― Lesley Livingston, quote from Tempestuous
“Both here and in Russia, he repeatedly chided Putin for cracking down on the press, telling the Russian president that his country had to have a free press, that a free press is essential for a democracy. “You need to have an independent press,” George would tell him. And Putin would invariably reply, “Well, you control your press.” George would shake his head and say, “No, Vladimir, I don’t. I wish sometimes that I could control them, but I can’t. They are free to say whatever they want. In our country, the press is free to write terrible things about me, and I can’t do anything about it.” But Russia is a country without those traditions, and with no memory of them, and many in Russia believed that the U.S. government did control our press. In fact, following a summit meeting, one of the first questions George got from a Russian newsman essentially was, How can you complain to President Putin about the Russian press when you fired Dan Rather?”
― Laura Bush, quote from Spoken from the Heart
“In less than a month it would be the magical feast of Samhain. Some years this took place at the great ceremonial centre of Tara; other years it was held at other places. At Samhain the excess livestock would be slaughtered, the rest put out on the wasteland and later brought into pens, while the High King and his followers set off on their winter rounds. Until then, however, it was a slow and peaceful time. The harvest was in, the weather still warm. It should, for the High King, have been a time of contentment.”
― Edward Rutherfurd, quote from The Princes of Ireland
“It is the only happiness now possible to me, to know that all is well with you”
― Sylvia Engdahl, quote from Enchantress from the Stars
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