Sarah Addison Allen
Sarah Addison Allen
Sarah Addison Allenis an American author. She grew up in Asheville, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where she graduated with a degree in literature. In early 2011 Allen was diagnosed with breast cancer and completed a round of chemotherapy by October of the same year...
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CountryUnited States of America
Sarah Addison Allen quotes about
kissing thinking heaven
I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
inspirational fall cat
Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.
autumn fruit aging
She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.
world mood depends
How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.
light steps youth
Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.
stories way different
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
girl silly mean
Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.
thinking people faces
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.
falling-in-love love-you kids
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.
giving one-day remember
I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
hurt one-thing love-always
Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.
dream thinking giving
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.
home air smell
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.
knows
We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet.