Top 280 Sarah Addison Allen Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Food is just something you grow and recipes are just words written in notebooks. They are nothing until the right person comes along. And that’s when the real magic happens.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

52. “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?”

— Sarah Addison Allen

53. “Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.”

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54. “She finally understood that, no matter how hard you try, you can’t make someone love you. You can’t stop them from making the wrong decision. There’s no magic for that.”

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55. “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.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

56. “You’d be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you’d do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

57. “Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren’t always shown the path in life you’re supposed to take. But sometimes when you’re really lucky, you meet someone with a map.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

58. “She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.”

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59. “I had a support system, which is what the women in our family sorely lack after they fall in love. They get married and want nothing but that one person. 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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60. “It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart scent that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds shaped like true-love hearts.”

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61. “The trick to getting through life, she’d told him, is not to resent it when it isn’t exactly how you think it should be.”

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62. “Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.”

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63. “How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.”

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64. “I remember how devastated my granddad was when my grandmother passed away. He wouldn’t get out of bed for weeks. When he finally did show up for breakfast one morning, he was so think I could see right through him. He sat down at the kitchen table and said, ‘Nothing will ever be the same because she isn’t in the world anymore.’ That’s how I know, how I’ve always known, that losing what you have is worse than getting anything new.”

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65. “Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.”

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66. “Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.”

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67. “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.”

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68. “There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

69. “My favorite quote for First Frost is, They give their hearts away too easily and get distracted by silver-eyed strangers.”

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70. “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.”

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71. “She had lived thirty-four years keeping everything inside, and now she was letting everything go, like butterflies released from a box. They didn’t burst forth, glad to be free, they simply flew away, softly, gradually, so she could watch them go. Good memories of her mother and grandmother were still there, butterflies that stayed, a little too old to go anywhere. That was okay. She would keep those.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

72. “If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he’s the devil. Run away.”

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73. “She couldn’t change who she was, and she no longer wanted to, even if she could. She knew that who you are is a stone set deep inside you. You can spend all your life trying to dig that stone out, or you can build around it. Your choice.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

74. “Some of Bay’s fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.”

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75. “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.”

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76. “Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.”

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77. “But she stopped herself. That wouldn’t make it right. You didn’t forgive because it was the only choice you thought you had. That didn’t make it forgiveness, that made it desperation. She’d always been too desperate about Jake. Always.”

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78. “All my life I’ve chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I’ve actually caught one.”

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79. “The ending of one story. The beginning of another.”

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80. “Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.”

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81. “When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights. It was cold enough for scarves and shirts worn in layers, like camouflage. It was cold enough for her lucky red cardigan, which she swore had a power of its own. She loved this time of year. Summer was tedious with the light dresses she pretended to be comfortable in while secretly sure she looked like a loaf of white bread wearing a belt. The cold was such a relief.”

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82. “A haunting, magical, modern-day fairytale. A feast for the senses.”

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83. “I know he’s a good baby... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.”

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84. “You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?”

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85. “He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.”

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86. “Some of the best people i know are fools’, Evanelle said. ‘The strongest people I know.”

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87. “The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.”

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88. “The trick is not to make eye contact. They don’t charge if you don’t make eye contact.”

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89. “How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don’t even know how to help those closest to us?”

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90. “Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble.”

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91. “If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there’s more to what’s written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don’t see.”

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92. “Maybe you don’t have to be led into the future. Maybe you can pick your own path. Maybe you don’t fall in love. Maybe you jump. Maybe, just maybe, it’s all a choice.”

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93. “I Have Not Yet Begun to Procrastinate” which was the quote on Bay’s shirt from “First Frost.”

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94. “She dropped her hand to the side of the chair and it dangled in the air between them. And, like it had been perfectly choreographed, Henry reached over and took it.”

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95. “Young girls always know. They know older women look at them and see what they’ve left behind and can’t get back. It’s a truth everyone knows but no one acknowledges: There’s nothing more powerful than an eighteen-year-old girl.”

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96. “Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I’m a work in progress.”

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97. “It had always fascinated him that she’d consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.”

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98. “Yellow joy was radiating from her. When you’re happy for yourself, it fills you. When you’re happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.”

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99. “There was such a feeling of peace around them, it was soft and pink and smelled of butter.”

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100. “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.”

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