Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

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

Were connected, as women. Its like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if theres trouble, we all know it, but most of the time were just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we dont help each other, who will?

Coffee, shed discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.

If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, hes the devil. Run away

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, its too long.

Sometimes you werent supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Youd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought youd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

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

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You arent always shown the path in life youre supposed to take. But if there was one thing shed learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when youre really lucky, you meet someone with a map.

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

A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.She would make it light enough to float away.She reached over to open the window. To float to her daughter.

Did I ever tell you about the day I finally let go of him? That day that led me to you?

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isnt enough to keep you from falling

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 thats all it would take to make them whole again.

But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

...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 didnt just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

There was a strange but universal understanding among women. On some level all women knew, they all understood, the fear of being outnumbered, of being helpless. It throbbed in their chests when they thought about the times they left stores and were followed. The knocks on their car windows as they were sitting alone at red lights, and strangers asking for rides. Having too much to drink and losing their ability to be forceful enough to just say no. Smiling at strange men coming on to them, not wanting to hurt their feelings, not wanting to make a scene. All women remembered these things, even if they had never happened to them personally. It was a part of their collective unconscious.