Top 280 Sarah Addison Allen Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

102. “On the day the tree bloomed in the fall, when its white apple blossoms fell and covered the ground like snow, it was tradition for the Waverleys to gather in the garden like survivors of some great catastrophe, hugging one another, laughing as they touched faces and arms, making sure they were all okay, grateful to have gotten through it.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

103. “Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.”

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104. “Sometimes, the best endings are the ones that surprise you. Sometimes, the best are the ones that have everything happening exactly how you want it to happen. But the absolute perfect endings are when you get a little of both.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

105. “She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

106. “The moon charm has an inscription: Yours from dark to light.”

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107. “Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn’t have to live down someone else’s.”

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108. “They lit candles on the table, all while the apple tree shook and blossoms continued to fall. When the petals hit the flames of the candles, they hissed and popped into ash, leaving behind a scent that was so beautiful and sweet that it smelled like both yesterday and tomorrow.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

109. “It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.”

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110. “Hearts break. There’s nothing you can do except wait for them to heal. Alcohol helps. So does talking to someone about it.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

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

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112. “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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113. “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.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

114. “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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115. “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.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

116. “Children always know when their mothers are crazy – they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.”

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117. “As a rule, rich Southern women did not like to be surpassed in either need or beauty. The exception was with their daughters. Daughters of the South were to their mothers what tributaries were to the main rivers they flowed into: their source of immovable strength.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

118. “I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

119. “She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi.”

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120. “He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side.”

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121. “So I told him his bread was ugly, and he called me a dough diva. A dough diva. Of all the nerve! We’re going out on Saturday.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

122. “There’s not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

123. “He stood there, glowing like the sun, and stared at her like she was the unbelievable one.”

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124. “He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.”

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125. “But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

126. “The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.”

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127. “If she’d been a color, she would have been bright green. If she’d been a scent, she would have been new paper. She was happy and intelligent and afraid of nothing.”

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128. “I think of the future all the time. All my life I’ve chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I’ve actually caught one. I’ll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I’m thousands of days ahead already.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

129. “It had taken her a long time to realize that a prison sometimes isn’t a prison at all. Sometimes, it’s simply a door you assume is locked because you’ve never tried to open it.”

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130. “Eby wanted to say so much to her. She wanted to say that waking up is the most important part of grieving, that so many women in their family failed to do it, and she was proud of Kate for fighting her way back. But Eby didn’t say anything. She could fix a lot of things, but family wasn’t one of them. It was one of the hardest things she’d ever had to come to terms with.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

131. “I maced people for you,” WIlla said; “you’ve got me for life.”

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132. “Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see.”

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133. “If you don’t like the ending, you make up a new one.”

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134. “Sawyer was quiet for a moment as he studied her. She wished he would take off his sunglasses. She didn’t like how uncomfortable she looked.”

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135. “In the autumn, the entire backyard became a mass of lollipop-yellow leaves, so bright they lit up the night like daylight. Birds nesting in the trees would get confused because they couldn’t tell what time of day it was, and they would stay awake for days until they dropped out of the branches with exhaustion.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

136. “Happiness meant taking risks. No one had ever told Paxton that before. It was like a secret the world had been keeping from her. Paxton didn’t take risks, at least not when she was sober. She knew what she was getting into before she ever committed to anything. The fact that all the changes she’d made in the past few days scared her to death had to be a good sign.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

137. “Candy is my religion.”

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138. “If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn’t get anywhere.”

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139. “She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

140. “There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.”

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141. “Oh, please. Everyone in this town always says that, like you have to be born here to understand things. I understand plenty. You’re only as weird as you want to be.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

142. “Claire understood things about Bay without Bay having to say a word.”

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143. “The neighborhood was quiet in that way only the cold could make it, as if freezing sounds before they hit the ground.”

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144. “The maple leaves grow restless.”

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145. “I get the feeling that you like pointing me in the wrong direction.”

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146. “The trailer looks like home!”

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147. “When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they’ll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.”

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148. “For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.”

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149. “If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.”

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150. “She didn’t realize she was staring at him until he turned to stare back. The air around them suddenly changed. She was so close she could smell him, a hint of cologne, and she could see the perspiration collected in the indentation at the base of his throat. His eyes went to her lips. Something warm and desperate filled her body. She’d never felt anything like it. It felt like the entire universe would cease to exist if something didn’t happen right then.”

— Sarah Addison Allen