Top 280 Sarah Addison Allen Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

152. “The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty. You know why? Because the endings changed. 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. That’s what’s happening here.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

153. “Take one man, one foolish woman, put them together in a bowl and stir.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

154. “But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn’t he have just stayed buried? No good had come of this.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

155. “She’d wanted the attention, she’d wanted more people to know her gift, as if the more people who knew, the more real it would be.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

156. “That was high school in a nutshell. No one was where they belonged. They were all on their way to someplace else.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

157. “I’ve never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.”

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158. “This was a woman who had long ago figured out she wasn’t getting her own happily-ever-after. But, like all disappointed women, she still believed in it, just that it was meant for someone else.”

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

— Sarah Addison Allen

160. “That’s the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

161. “And everyone still swore the rose candies made them think of their first loves.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

162. “She opened her hand in front of me, but nothing was there. But then she blew on the palm of her hand and sparkles of ice flew into the air and landed on my face. It was so soft and cool.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

163. “The neighborhood homeowners always knew when she ran by, because they suddenly felt the desire to organize their sock drawers and finally replace those burned out light-bulbs they’d been meaning to.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

164. “Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley’s Candies. Though her handcrafted confections – rose to recall lost love, lavender to promote happiness and lemon verbena to soothe throats and minds – are singularly effective, the business of selling them is costing her the everyday joys of her family, and her belief in her own precious gifts.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

165. “But we spend all our lives looking for puzzle pieces that will give us a clearer picture of ourselves, of where we’re supposed to go and who we’re supposed to be.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

166. “Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

167. “The outside world might have finally turned into autumn, but inside the Waverley house it still smelled of summer. It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds like true-love hearts.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

168. “Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

169. “To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn’t what he expected. He wished he’d paid more attention to the story.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

170. “Things happened the way they were supposed to, and it was no use trying to predict what was going to come next. People liked to think otherwise, but what you thought had no practical influence on what eventually happened. You can’t think yourself well. You can’t make yourself fall out of love.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

171. “He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you’re in the ocean and a wave hits you. It’s so soft and coll that it surprised you that it has such strength.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

172. “He loved that she made him something he never thought he’d been capable of being. Someone who stayed.”

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173. “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

174. “She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”

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175. “We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

176. “Autumn felt like the whole world was browned and roasted until it was so tender it was about to fall away from the bone.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

177. “Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.”

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178. “Sometimes it’s difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.”

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179. “The night he and Julia had was amazing, and something he’d dreamed about for you years. Up until that night, she’d only been a fantasy... He’d never thought he’d have a chance with her, so he’d kept his distance and watched from afar. That night was everything he’d dreamed it would be, although a little bittersweet.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

180. “He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

181. “She snorted. “Are you seriously asking me to have a fling with you?” “Absolutely not,” he said, feigning shock. “I said dinner. It was your lascivious mind that went to the bedroom.“... When he met her eyes, he was stunned to see they were huge They darted once to his lips. She thought he was going to kiss her. And she wasn’t running away.”

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182. “Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

183. “That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you’re lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.”

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184. “They give their hearts too easily.”

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185. “She would read a book hundreds of times, carrying it with her until the pages were torn and the covers were falling off, then she’d paste the covers to the ceiling where she could stare at them, like remembering a good dream.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

186. “It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we’re taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

187. “I’ll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I’m thousands of days ahead already.”

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188. “The air outside was tomato-sweet and hickory-smoked, all at once delicious and strange. It automatically made her touch her tongue to her lips.”

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189. “Ever read a story that you simply can’t imagine how it will end? This place is like that. The best things in life are like that.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

190. “Julia was like water in his hands. She’d slipped right through. Lovely and strange and unpredictable, she’d been everything he wasn’t. Nothing he was used to.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

191. “She’d spent enough time in this life to know that not everything will go your way. She’d read enough books to know that they weren’t all happy endings.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

192. “Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.”

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193. “In her mind, Em was a deranged ballerina-child who smelled like bubblegum and only ate McDonald’s Happy Meals.”

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194. “Bay looked down at the wispy dress, her fingers trailing over it. It really was perfect. It was a faded teal green with layers of beige netting forming a sheer cowl neck. Old sequins were sewn down the side, forming the shapes of flowers, and a silk sash sat below the hips.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

195. “Bay’s room was the first one at the top of the staircase. It was painted a dove gray that turned peacock blue after dark, as if the room absorbed the warmth of daylight and radiated with it at night.”

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196. “But a woman’s ability to surprise herself is far stronger than her ability to surprise others.”

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197. “Losing what you have is worse than getting anything new.”

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198. “Wasn’t that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.”

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199. “I have not yet begun to procrastinate.”

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200. “It was natural, she supposed, to be tense around him. Your peers when you’re a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life’s great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.”

— Sarah Addison Allen