Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

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

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Happiness, Risk, Littles

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• 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 its 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 a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Daughter, Book, Cat

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.180, Bantam

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

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Space, Needs, Littles

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.57, Bantam

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• 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.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Fate, Past, Promise

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• 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

  Selfish, Women, Insecure

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.135, Bantam

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• 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.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Moving, Home, Moon

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

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Fall, Autumn, Cobblers

  Sarah Addison Allen (2015). “First Frost”, p.2, St. Martin's Press

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• I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Freedom, Needed

  Sarah Addison Allen (2012). “The Peach Keeper”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Book, Where You Come, Can't Change

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• Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Morning, Memories, Coffee

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.150, Bantam

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• Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Thinking, Want Something, Magic

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Hurt, Vulnerable, Spots

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• When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Happiness

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “Garden Spells”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Love, Sweet, Kissing

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.229, Bantam

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• Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Real, Heart, Magic

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• The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

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  Good Morning, Sweet, Good Day

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.222, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Regret, Teenager, Moving

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.90, Bantam

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

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Inspirational, Fall, Cat

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• Safe is just another word for scared.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Safe, Scared

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• 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.

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  Morning, Regret, Drinking

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.76, Bantam

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• 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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  Falling In Love, Knowing, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.177, Bantam

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• Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Distance, Grandmother, Sky

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.166, Bantam

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

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Trying, Needs, Fit

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Girl, Growing Up, Loss

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.43, Bantam

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• 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.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Book, Mind, Stories

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.120, St. Martin's Press

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