Top 150 Sarah Adams Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I have millions of dollars and I will spoil you with them if I want.”

— Sarah Adams

102. “And the strange part is, I still think marriage is a wonderful idea and something I’d like to have one day-but I’m now seeing that it was the wrong thing to be placing on a pedestal of ultimate happiness. I was looking for the perfect person with the perfect traits and the perfect timing, when really, all my heart actually wants is to be fully known and loved.”

— Sarah Adams

103. “Just beyond Noah, there’s a picture on his dresser of a boy, three girls, and a mom and dad. My heart squeezes and twists and before I know it, I’m wiping a rogue tear from my cheek. He’s so good – this man. I can’t imagine how I’ll be able to walk away.”

— Sarah Adams

104. “She grins and her wrinkles multiply. “Go have your break, darlin’. And even better, have it with a good man who’ll treat you right.” She nods over my shoulder to The Pie Shop.”

— Sarah Adams

105. “I’ll be so careful with you, Emily.”

— Sarah Adams

106. “You want fire and passion. You want pillow fights and prank wars. You want to be challenged, and fought with, and deeply wanted.”

— Sarah Adams

107. “I... I wouldn’t marry someone who would be like that. I’ll find someone who’s comfortable with our friendship the way it is.”

— Sarah Adams

108. “I am officially done with people today. Except for her.”

— Sarah Adams

109. “I’m basically trying to throw sprinkles on top of a broccoli sundae, hoping to make it look more appealing.”

— Sarah Adams

110. “I don’t think I like the word regret. Every choice I’ve made has been valuable in some way or other.”

— Sarah Adams

111. “And to think you consider yourself hard to love.” I kiss her temple. “Loving you is the easiest thing I’ve ever done.”

— Sarah Adams

112. “Noah is the blanket fort you used to make and hide in as a kid. So warm and reassuring.”

— Sarah Adams

113. “I’m relearning who I am and why I love the things I do. So I’d like some time to do that before I decide to get married. But what I do want is to have a relationship with you – to go day by day and earn your trust while you earn mine, and we figure out who we are in this messy life together.”

— Sarah Adams

114. “He smiles. SMILES. It’s blinding. My heart stops and then starts again, galloping right out of my chest. Good Gouda, that man has gorgeous teeth. And crinkles beside his eyes. When he smiles like that, he looks so approachable and comfy that I want to drape myself over him and just squeeze him in a giant hug. He’s huggable. The Grumpy Pie Shop owner is absolutely huggable.”

— Sarah Adams

115. “Do you at least have any romance books? Something steamy and emotional?” He laughs. “No.” “And you call yourself a reader. You should be ashamed.”

— Sarah Adams

116. “She’s shown me that every season of life is important and that no one path is more meaningful than another.”

— Sarah Adams

117. “I’m just grateful that no one has come into the shop during this soap opera. Here, try our newest donut: French vanilla with a hint of ‘my best friend is leaving forever’ tears.”

— Sarah Adams

118. “Well, Magic 8 Ball, what do you think? Should I tell my best friend I love her?”

— Sarah Adams

119. “Now I never give him pieces of myself. I have zero hope for us. 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

120. “I don’t even know him and I feel safe. Noah is the blanket fort you used to make and hide in as a kid. So warm and reassuring.”

— Sarah Adams

121. “And if you still don’t believe me that I’m not making commissions off of our dogs, I will be happy to show you my checking account, and you’ll be impressed to see that the total is exactly the same as my age.”

— Sarah Adams

122. “And I realise in this moment, I’d do just about anything to make her laugh.”

— Sarah Adams

123. “Do you feel that? My heart is going mushy. You’re turning me into a sap, and I don’t know what to do about it. It’s weird.”

— Sarah Adams

124. “Sometimes life is like a box of chocolates, and sometimes life is like a box of chocolates left out in the sun all day.”

— Sarah Adams

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

128. “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

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

— Sarah Adams

130. “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

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

135. “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

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

— Sarah Adams

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

— Sarah Adams

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

— Sarah Adams

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

— Sarah Adams

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

— Sarah Adams

141. “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

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

— Sarah Adams

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

— Sarah Adams

144. “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

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

— Sarah Adams

146. “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

147. “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

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

— Sarah Adams

149. “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

150. “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