110+ Sarah Addison Allen Quotes On Friendship, Success And Magical

Sarah Addison Allen is an American author of magical realism and contemporary fiction. She is best known for her debut novel, Garden Spells, which was published in 2007 and was a New York Times bestseller. Her other novels include The Peach Keeper, The Girl Who Chased the Moon, The Sugar Queen, and Lost Lake. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sarah Addison Allen on love, friendship, life.

Top 10 Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

1. It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
2. Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
3. Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.
4. The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.
5. 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.
6. She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
7. She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.
8. Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.
9. When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.
10. It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.

Sarah Addison Allen Short Quotes

• I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
• Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
• Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.
• It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.
• Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.
• It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
• She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
• To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
• She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.
• The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

Sarah Addison Allen Quotes About Love

Willa?" "Yes" "It's morning and I still love you. — Sarah Addison Allen

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. — Sarah Addison Allen

Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have. — Sarah Addison Allen

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back. — Sarah Addison Allen

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

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? — Sarah Addison Allen

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. — Sarah Addison Allen

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated. — Sarah Addison Allen

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet. — Sarah Addison Allen

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

Sarah Addison Allen Quotes About Friendship

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse. — Sarah Addison Allen

That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it. — Sarah Addison Allen

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. — Sarah Addison Allen

Her friendship . . . 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. — Sarah Addison Allen

Sarah Addison Allen Quotes About Life

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

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

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life. — Sarah Addison Allen

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything — Sarah Addison Allen

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty? — Sarah Addison Allen

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

But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life. — Sarah Addison Allen

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult. — Sarah Addison Allen

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it. — Sarah Addison Allen

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere. — Sarah Addison Allen

Sarah Addison Allen Quotes About Magical

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

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. — Sarah Addison Allen

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have. — Sarah Addison Allen

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

Sarah Addison Allen Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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. — Sarah Addison Allen

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

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 — Sarah Addison Allen

Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever? — Sarah Addison Allen

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again. — Sarah Addison Allen

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

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

You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it? — Sarah Addison Allen

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. — Sarah Addison Allen

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right. — Sarah Addison Allen

Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman. — Sarah Addison Allen

People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted. — Sarah Addison Allen

When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple. — Sarah Addison Allen

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

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. — Sarah Addison Allen

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

When someone needs help, you help. Right? — Sarah Addison Allen

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery. — Sarah Addison Allen

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence. — Sarah Addison Allen

Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends. — Sarah Addison Allen

She'd fallen into the best part of her past. — Sarah Addison Allen

If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away — Sarah Addison Allen

Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for. — Sarah Addison Allen

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper. — Sarah Addison Allen

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

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

When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. — Sarah Addison Allen

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. — Sarah Addison Allen

We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet. — Sarah Addison Allen

He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand. — Sarah Addison Allen

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it. — Sarah Addison Allen

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate. — Sarah Addison Allen

Safe is just another word for scared. — Sarah Addison Allen

He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted. — Sarah Addison Allen

How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us? — Sarah Addison Allen

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. — Sarah Addison Allen

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact. — Sarah Addison Allen

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. — Sarah Addison Allen

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to. — Sarah Addison Allen

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being. — Sarah Addison Allen

The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them. — Sarah Addison Allen

Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know. — Sarah Addison Allen

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know. — Sarah Addison Allen

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone. — Sarah Addison Allen

Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences. — Sarah Addison Allen

He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather. — Sarah Addison Allen

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was. — Sarah Addison Allen

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

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood. — Sarah Addison Allen

...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup. — Sarah Addison Allen

Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something. — Sarah Addison Allen

She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power. — Sarah Addison Allen

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. — Sarah Addison Allen

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's. — Sarah Addison Allen

I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has always been tough for me." I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me. — Sarah Addison Allen

I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right? — Sarah Addison Allen

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

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

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways. — Sarah Addison Allen

It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside. — Sarah Addison Allen

If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok. — Sarah Addison Allen

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all. — Sarah Addison Allen

I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you. — Sarah Addison Allen

Life Lessons by Sarah Addison Allen

1. Sarah Addison Allen teaches us to be brave and take risks in order to create a life that we love. She encourages us to embrace our unique qualities and to be open to the possibilities of life.
2. Allen emphasizes the importance of family and friendship, showing us that even in the darkest of times, we can find solace in the people who love us.
3. Finally, she reminds us to take joy in the small moments and to appreciate the beauty of the world around us.