Sarah Addison Allen

“He hadn't meant to get so angry at Morgan. He didn't often get angry at other people. There was no sense in it. The person you were angry at was rarely ever repentant. Now, getting angry with yourself had some merit. It showed you had sense enough to chastise the one person who had any hope of benefiting from it. And he was plenty angry with himself. For many things.”

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

“Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.”

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

“He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.”

“life is too short to spend time with people' who suck the happiness "out of u"..”

“Just So You KnowYou fall in love with every book you touch. You never break the spine or tear the pages. That would be cruel. You have secret favorites but, when asked, you say that you could never choose. But did you know that books fall in love with you, too?They watch you from the shelf while you sleep. Are you dreaming of them, they wonder, in that wistful mood books are prone to at night when they’re bored and there’s nothing else to do but tease the cat.Remember that pale yellow book you read when you were sixteen? It changed your world, that book. It changed your dreams. You carried it around until it was old and thin and sparkles no longer rose from the pages and filled the air when you opened it, like it did when it was new. You should know that it still thinks of you. It would like to get together sometime, maybe over coffee next month, so you can see how much you’ve both changed.And the book about the donkey your father read to you every night when you were three, it’s still around – older, a little worse for wear. But it still remembers the way your laughter made its pages tremble with joy.Then there was that book, just last week, in the bookstore. It caught your eye. You looked away quickly, but it was too late. You felt the rush. You picked it up and stroked your hand over its glassy cover. It knew you were The One. But, for whatever reason, you put it back and walked away. Maybe you were trying to be practical. Maybe you thought there wasn’t room enough, time enough, energy enough.But you’re thinking about it now, aren’t you?You fall in love so easily.But just so you know, they do, too.”

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

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

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

“There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.”

“I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?”

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

“And you couldn't make a snowman in your neighborhood because?Because you weren't there.”

“...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.”

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

“..And where a neighbour bakes hummingbird cakes in the hope of bringing back a lost love.”

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

“Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the trees, like Christmas lights. She felt like part of the hollow around her was filling. She’d come here with too many expectations.”

“You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.”

“Willa?" "Yes" "It's morning and I still love you.”

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

“Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.”

“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.”

“...Agatha had declared that her friendship to Georgie still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.”

“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.”

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

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

“How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?”

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

“She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.”

“We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet.”

“Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.”

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

“Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything”

“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.”

“all we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other,who will?”

“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.”

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

“When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.”

“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.”

“I'm going out with Colin Osgood today, and he's meeting me here. If you start making kissy noises, I will strip you of all your coffee privileges.Rachel pretended to think seriously about it, then asked, "Can I make a joke?" "No." "A limerick?" "No." "Can I hum the "Wedding March" as you leave?" "No.”

“Papel, cordel e cola.Separadamente, eram apenas objectos à espera de um propósito. Em conjunto eram partes de um todo.”

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

“Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.”

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

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

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

“To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it.On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina.Waiting for her.”

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