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
daughter dream strong
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.
memories peaches grew
Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.
strange quiet unfinished
Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
long realizing long-time
It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
swimming differences effort
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.
trying finding-happiness lost
I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
hands water stills
...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.
empty feels
How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?
children grandmother secret
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.
trying needs fit
Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.
past fallen
She'd fallen into the best part of her past.
taken sleep heart
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.
memories blow childhood
Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?
soul stubborn changing-your-life
For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.