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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Sarah Addison Allen quotes about
happiness
When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.
two people world
It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.
hurt expectations way
Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.
ice expectations chocolate
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.
past enough hard
Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.
air garlands
The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.
night smell maple-syrup
...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.
long might tomorrow
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.
breathing going-away moments
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.
football regret thinking
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.
charity helping knows
How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?
falling-in-love fall people
People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.
abiding helping ifs
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?
why-not you-like-it who-you-are
You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?