Top 150 Sarah Adams Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “I think we’ll get hurt a lot in this life, but maybe it’s worth it because sometimes we will experience really amazing things, too. Maybe not everything will end in hurt. But we’ll never know if we don’t try.”

— Sarah Adams

2. “I’d say that I regret the things I never said way more than the things I have said.”

— Sarah Adams

3. “It’s painful having to look at something so beautiful and never touch it.”

— Sarah Adams

4. “Anyways, I just decided that if I’m never going to be good enough for them, I might as well have them be disappointed in me for doing something I love rather than living a life that makes me feel like crap.”

— Sarah Adams

5. “Please. Just let me be here. I don’t know why, but I can’t be anywhere else. I tried but my feet keep bringing me back here to your door.”

— Sarah Adams

6. “I love you too,” he whispers over and over again. “I love you, Bree. I love you. I always have.”

— Sarah Adams

7. “You can’t control other people, but you can control who you surround yourself with.”

— Sarah Adams

8. “Channel your inner Lorelai Gilmore. I will not be that single dad that sucks.”

— Sarah Adams

9. “It’s odd how you can know someone for such a short period of time and yet feel like you’ve always been there with them.”

— Sarah Adams

10. “I think some things are worth waiting for, no matter how long it takes.”

— Sarah Adams

11. “But the thing about quiet people is, we’re only quiet because our brains are so busy overthinking everything.”

— Sarah Adams

12. “This one is for the softies. The tenderhearted sweeties. The introverts who are afraid to shine.”

— Sarah Adams

13. “Annie: You’d do that for me? Will: I’m quickly learning I’d do anything for you.”

— Sarah Adams

14. “She understands that sometimes people just need to talk and be heard – not fixed.”

— Sarah Adams

15. “I am the quiet one in my family. The one with her nose always in a book because she prefers worlds where she doesn’t have to interact with other humans. It’s so much easier to read about relationships than to foster them. Less dangerous too. I can’t offend anyone written into a book. I can’t say the wrong thing. And book characters don’t make judgments about me.”

— Sarah Adams

16. “Your soul is my favorite in this entire world,” he replies quietly.”

— Sarah Adams

17. “The honest truth is I’m celibate by choice. I don’t know, one day I just woke up and realized I was done trying to trick myself into thinking I wanted anyone other than Bree. If it’s not with her, I don’t want it.”

— Sarah Adams

18. “It seems to me, Annie, that you are just waiting for someone to give you permission to be yourself out loud.”

— Sarah Adams

19. “Hope is healthy. Even if you prepare yourself for the worst in life, it will never make the fall hurt less.”

— Sarah Adams

20. “I’ve always had trouble telling people the truth of what I’m feeling when I know it’s going to be uncomfortable for them to hear – so I usually just keep it bottled up.”

— Sarah Adams

21. “I feel my heart physically crack a little. It’s both painful and healing at the same time.”

— Sarah Adams

22. “But it’s time for both of us to stop padding our lives so we don’t feel bumps in the road anymore. I think we’ll get hurt a lot in this life, but maybe it’s worth it because sometimes we will experience really amazing things, too. Maybe not everything will end in hurt. But we’ll never know if we don’t try.”

— Sarah Adams

23. “I don’t need a man to give me confidence.” “Yes, you do.” Cooper grins when my mouth opens in disbelief that he just said that.”

— Sarah Adams

24. “To my left is a floor-to-ceiling three-million-dollar view of the ocean, but to my right is the view I would give my soul to see every day for the rest of my life.”

— Sarah Adams

25. “Bree is everything I aspire to be, everything I love, everything I desire. She holds my heart, and, with all that I am, I hope she never gives it back.”

— Sarah Adams

26. “He looks at me again. “I disagree. I think some things are worth waiting for, no matter how long it takes.”

— Sarah Adams

27. “The problem is, you’re trying to rationalise your feelings. I have bad news for you, the heart wants what it wants, and there’s no talking it out of it.”

— Sarah Adams

28. “Do you see now? You’re always giving me things that remind you of me, but I’m over here stealing things that remind me of you. I’m not humoring you, Bree. I’m not taking this lightly. I’m so devastatingly in love with you, it hurts sometimes – and I have been since high school.”

— Sarah Adams

29. “He pauses and looks down at Sam who is hanging on Ryan’s every word like he’s giving the exact directions to Shawn Mendes’s personal residence.”

— Sarah Adams

30. “I turn around and face my mom. “I’ve never asked too much of you, Mom, but today, I need you to run me over with your car.” She curls her lips inward, making a cooky smile, and pats the side of my arm. “Did someone make a bad decision last night on her date?”

— Sarah Adams

31. “I would have sold my soul to be able to get your dreams back for you in that moment.”

— Sarah Adams

32. “With a sigh, I look down at my newest Breenket. “Well, magic eight ball, what do you think? Should I tell my best friend I love her?”

— Sarah Adams

33. “And then I called my brother, and as we talked, I realised that leaving this town without you was the scariest thought I’ve ever had. I need you in my life like I need air, Annie. You have wrecked me in the best way I could ever imagine, and I’ll never be the same. Never want to be the same. I love you.”

— Sarah Adams

34. “I couldn’t bear to watch her lose her dream like that.”

— Sarah Adams

35. “While I’m not your mama or your grandma, but someone who’s lived a long time and loved deeper than I could ever describe to you, I’d say that I regret the things I never said way more than the things I have said. If you love him – be honest. With yourself and with him.”

— Sarah Adams

36. “Some of us need to live through the healing rather than talk through it.”

— Sarah Adams

37. “I’ve never wanted to crawl into someone’s head and read all of their thoughts like I do with Annie. My need to understand her, to know every desire, every hope and fear and longing, scares me.”

— Sarah Adams

38. “Because it’s only an insult if I accept it as one.”

— Sarah Adams

39. “Talk down about yourself being a mom. I can’t take it anymore. You’re beautiful, Lucy, and you’ve got a great body that doesn’t need constant prefacing that you think it’s flawed. And you know what else?” He’s really fired up. “Being a mom doesn’t make you less appealing. It makes you the whole package.”

— Sarah Adams

40. “There are dozens of bouquets filling my living room. Big glorious pink and green blooms everywhere. I don’t have a favorite flower because it’s too hard to narrow it down to one, but I do have a favorite flower color combination. Apparently, I’ve told Nathan this at some point. And he remembered. Pink and green. My stomach clenches tight.”

— Sarah Adams

41. “A hair has fallen loose from her bun and is dangling by the side of her face. Without a second thought, my hand rises and I brush my fingertips across her cheekbone, tucking the hair gently behind her ear. She sucks in a quick breath, her lips parting. She’s so damn pretty. Soft and sweet, but also vibrant and sharp. Is that how kissing her would taste?”

— Sarah Adams

42. “I am the quiet one in my family. The one with her nose always in a book because she prefers worlds where she doesn’t have to interact with other humans. It’s so much easier to read about relationships than to foster them. Less dangerous too.”

— Sarah Adams

43. “You are beautiful, Lucy. Everything about you.” He gives me a slow, lingering kiss. “Sexy.” Kiss. “Feminine.” Kiss. “Strong.” Kiss. “Everything I could ever want in a woman.”

— Sarah Adams

44. “If I waited until I felt confident to live my life and do the things I want to do, I’d never live.” He stares into my eyes. “This lesson is one as old as time: Fake it till you make it. If you want something, pretend you’re the kind of person who’s not scared of it.”

— Sarah Adams

45. “I’m guessing it has something to do with that paragraph-long text she sent me – the one I’ve literally read thirty times because it’s so freaking cute I can’t stand it.”

— Sarah Adams

46. “How is it possible to share DNA with someone and still feel so ‘other’ from them – and yet still love them with my whole heart?”

— Sarah Adams

47. “I breathe in the smell of flowers and Will Griffin. My two favourite scents in the entire world.”

— Sarah Adams

48. “No one loves anything they’re miserably chained to.”

— Sarah Adams

49. “Dry your tears and kick this gloomy attitude in the pants, Amelia!” I say out loud to myself because who else does a girl talk to when she’s alone in the car in the middle of a mental breakdown?”

— Sarah Adams

50. “Some part of me says I should be appalled to be hauled around by a man like this, but I can’t hear her because the larger part of me is too busy yelling, YES! Carry me back to your cave and make sweet, sweet love to me!”

— Sarah Adams