Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

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

Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

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

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.

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

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.

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 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.

She wished she had known back then. Known that happiness isn't a point in time you leave behind. It's what's ahead of you. Every single day.

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

Candy is my religion.

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

Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."

She had laughed and said, "I've read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If I read them now, the endings will have changed.

But he’d loved only Eby. You didn't need a mirror to tell you that you were beautiful when you had proof like that.

He loved that she made him something he never thought he'd been capable of being. Someone who stayed.

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.