Top 280 Sarah Addison Allen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

2. “Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

3. “Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.”

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4. “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.”

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5. “I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn’t love me back.”

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6. “Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.”

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7. “People adapt. People change. You can grow where you’re planted.”

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8. “When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.”

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9. “When someone needs help, you help. Right?”

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10. “The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.”

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11. “It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.”

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12. “Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”

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13. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”

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14. “She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.”

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15. “Some people come into your life and change it forever.”

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16. “Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”

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17. “When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.”

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18. “You can’t change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.”

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19. “The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.”

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20. “Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.”

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21. “Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.”

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22. “Superstitions are man’s way of trying to control things he has no control over...”

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23. “History is a loop. We’re exactly where they stood twenty years ago. What’s theirs is ours, what’s ours will become theirs.”

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24. “Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.”

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25. “Second chances are not to be wasted. It is one of the most valuable lessons we can learn in life.”

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26. “First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.”

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27. “Men. You can’t live with them, you can’t shoot them.”

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28. “Like all fairy tales, the beginning is always beautiful, a ruse to draw you into something you are anticipating.”

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29. “Old hands can hold memories of good things.”

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30. “Don’t let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.”

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31. “Don’t you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?”

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32. “She’d always known he didn’t love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn’t know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.”

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33. “Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what’s real in life, and in one’s own heart.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it’s too long.”

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36. “No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.”

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37. “She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.”

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38. “Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.”

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39. “Everything had felt so precarious since her mother’s death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.”

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40. “I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”

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41. “I’m homesick all the time,” she said, still not looking at him “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.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “When you’re a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.”

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44. “When you’re happy for yourself, it fills you. When you’re happy for someone else, it pours over.”

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45. “People fall in love all the time. And it’s not always with the right people. And it’s not always reciprocated.”

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46. “Safe is just another word for scared.”

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47. “I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.”

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48. “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 it’s 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 just a comfort to have a book around. -The Sugar Queen.”

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49. “But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn’t enough to keep you from falling.”

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50. “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.”

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