Top 150 Sarah Adams Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “The paparazzo?” Noah asks. “No, the pizza man has a new photography hobby! Yes, Noah, the paparazzo!”

— Sarah Adams

52. “Boom. Status quo re-established. Friendship saved.”

— Sarah Adams

53. “This book is for all the four-legged superheroes of the world, saving lives, giving love and independence to those who need it!”

— Sarah Adams

54. “I’m going to take three steps back to you and put my hands on your hips.” His eyes rove over me, and he squints just below my chin. “Maybe your jaw, maybe the back of your neck. We’ll see. And then I’m going to kiss you.”

— Sarah Adams

55. “Listen to me, darlin’, and remember this for the rest of your life: it’s always okay to go home. Anytime you feel uncomfortable or scared, never worry about what anyone else is going to think if you call your daddy and have him come get you. Your house is a safe place, and you love being there, and that’s something to be proud of, not embarrassed about.”

— Sarah Adams

56. “Care is reckless because it doesn’t come with the seat belt that selfishness offers. Care has so much to lose, and almost always ends in heartbreak.”

— Sarah Adams

57. “Football didn’t matter as much to me as she did.”

— Sarah Adams

58. “I’m terrified to admit that holding her in my arms is the closest I’ve come to feeling truly happy in a very long time.”

— Sarah Adams

59. “How is it possible to crave change and relish familiarity at the same time?”

— Sarah Adams

60. “But it’s not just Lucy’s skin, hair, and eyes that contribute to her beauty. It’s every smile, every laugh, every little thing she does for her son and did for me when I was sick. It’s all of it. I meant it when I said I thought Lucy was the complete package. She’s too good to be true.”

— Sarah Adams

61. “I don’t know how to love – not even sure I’m capable of it. In fact, I don’t know that I believe in it.”

— Sarah Adams

62. “Oh heavens!” Henry says, sounding like a 1950s housewife who’s never heard a swear word.”

— Sarah Adams

63. “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.”

— Sarah Adams

64. “Hell, I would have settled for sitting and watching her read her book. I bet she makes all kinds of faces while reading.”

— Sarah Adams

65. “I can’t get her off my mind. I want to spend every second of the day with her. I want to make up for every day of every year I spent fighting with her instead of loving her. Lately, it’s been seeming like she feels the same way too.”

— Sarah Adams

66. “When Nathan’s voice reaches me, low and quiet, I almost think I’ve heard him wrong. “Yeah, but that was when it was just fake.”

— Sarah Adams

67. “Have you never loved something just for what it means to you?”

— Sarah Adams

68. “I missed you.” My laughter stops. My heart skips. My lips part. But before I can respond, he adds, “But you’re still a pain in my ass.”

— Sarah Adams

69. “Sometimes people decide not to like me for the most arbitrary reasons. Sometimes it’s just because I’m famous, and successful people make them uncomfortable. Sometimes it’s because I voted differently than them. And sometimes it’s because I frowned outside their favorite yogurt shop and now they want to cancel me forever because they think I’m against yogurt.”

— Sarah Adams

70. “But you own the key to your own lock and don’t you forget it. Set yourself free for a while and that love will come back, just you watch.”

— Sarah Adams

71. “It’s agony and heaven to have her confide in me. I shut my eyes against her words, because, dammit, I don’t want to feel anything toward her, but I do.”

— Sarah Adams

72. “Tell you what, Annie. We’ll get you your committed relationship and your white picket fence, and if for some reason it doesn’t feel right and you want that adventure after all – ” He looks at me. “Call me and I’ll come hold your hand on the flight.”

— Sarah Adams

73. “Like wanting to marry her because I was so in love with her it physically hurt, only for her to break up with me before I ever got the chance.”

— Sarah Adams

74. “And he can’t know that I broke up with Martin because Martin isn’t Nathan.”

— Sarah Adams

75. “Until I met her and held her in my arms, I never knew I could be capable of so much tenderness.”

— Sarah Adams

76. “I’m the older sister, I’m not scared of anything.”

— Sarah Adams

77. “It’s not the kind of touch a stranger would give. It’s the kind that says You were mine once.”

— Sarah Adams

78. “It’s good to be back in the world. Are the Kardashians still famous?”

— Sarah Adams

79. “Apparently satisfied with the amount of photos taken, she crosses in front of me, takes my hand, and pulls me along behind her, smiling like a seductive queen back at me. Everyone should bow down to her as she passes. I follow along, her lost puppy.”

— Sarah Adams

80. “Because opinions are not fact. As my mom always said, opinions only become truth if you accept them as such.”

— Sarah Adams

81. “I swear the sunlight hits this woman differently than other people. It seeps into her skin, makes her glow.”

— Sarah Adams

82. “But most startling is the realization that when I look at Derek, some corner of my heart still says mine. Will that ever go away? Do I want it to?”

— Sarah Adams

83. “Love your body – it works hard for you every day of your life.”

— Sarah Adams

84. “We make eye contact and he doesn’t smile at first, but the longer he looks at me, his lips start to rise in the corners like he just can’t help himself. And all at once, I think maybe my chances aren’t hopeless after all.”

— Sarah Adams

85. “His eyes drop to my palm pressing against his firm chest, and he covers it with his hand. The contact is a jolt through my veins. It reminds me that I just kissed him. On the red carpet. In front of everyone.”

— Sarah Adams

86. “If you don’t intend to walk her down the aisle, then don’t go dipping your toes in her pond.”

— Sarah Adams

87. “It’s a weird thing to let yourself grieve your parent who is still living, but I’ve done it – do it regularly, actually.”

— Sarah Adams

88. “Making the first move and it not being reciprocated. Y’all are stuck in a vortex of fear and miscommunication. Someone has to break through it first.”

— Sarah Adams

89. “What’s the point of having an incredible salary if you can’t spoil someone with it?”

— Sarah Adams

90. “Because she has a hold on me that I can’t figure out. Because her eyes do this sparkly thing when she’s excited and the light hits them just right. Because the curve of her bottom lip is perfect. Because I feel desperate to know what wild thing she’s going to say next anytime she’s around.”

— Sarah Adams

91. “Hello, little honey bees. You glorious, sharp-edged, perfection seekers. You’ve been working so hard, holding everything together; come sit down with me for a while and take a load off.”

— Sarah Adams

92. “My mom taught me early on that I would never be everyone’s cup of tea, but that doesn’t mean I should change my flavor for anyone either.”

— Sarah Adams

93. “And now it’s just me and Ryan all alone in the corner of this dark, loud bar. The perfect place to murder someone and get away with it.”

— Sarah Adams

94. “I realize I’m not sure what I really want anymore. Who I was and who I am becoming are meeting at an intersection and deciding who should proceed.”

— Sarah Adams

95. “This one’s for my girls: Dream even bigger. Reach impossibly higher. Don’t you dare ever settle.”

— Sarah Adams

96. “When the hell did it become such a crime to be selfish now and again?”

— Sarah Adams

97. “And besides, everything happened the way it needed to. No sense looking back while you’re still moving forward.”

— Sarah Adams

98. “Uh-uh. Don’t you do it, heart. I feel you trying to squeeze, but I won’t allow it. So what? He’s a good brother. Big. Freaking. Deal.”

— Sarah Adams

99. “Sometimes I wonder, if I stay quiet, will she continue to talk the whole night? I’d happily let her.”

— Sarah Adams

100. “I want to hug each other when we’re sad and help each other find the bright side of things when all we see is the dark.”

— Sarah Adams