Sarah Addison Allen
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.Collection: Smile
Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.Collection: Happiness
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.Collection: Daughter
Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.Collection: Space
Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.Collection: Fate
I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.Collection: Moving
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?Collection: Selfish
I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.Collection: Freedom
You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.Collection: Book
It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.Collection: Fall
Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.Collection: Thinking
Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.Collection: Morning
Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.Collection: Hurt
When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.Collection: Happiness
Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.Collection: Real
The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.Collection: Good Morning
Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.Collection: Regret
Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.Collection: Inspirational
It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.Collection: Love
Safe is just another word for scared.Collection: Safe
Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Falling In Love
Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.Collection: Trying
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.Collection: Girl
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.Collection: Book
Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.Collection: Suffering
Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?Collection: Memories
Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.Collection: Air
...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.Collection: Night
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.Collection: People
Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everythingCollection: Life Is
He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Taken
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 caloriesCollection: Book
Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.Collection: Long
Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.Collection: People
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.Collection: Different
How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?Collection: Charity
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.Collection: Football
It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.Collection: Sky
Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.Collection: People
Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.Collection: Memories
Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.Collection: Strange
The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.Collection: Sweet
When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.Collection: Beautiful
People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.Collection: Falling In Love
To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.Collection: Kissing
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.Collection: Dream
There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.Collection: Beautiful
When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.Collection: Air