Sarah Addison Allen

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

Love always hurts. That__ one thing I know you know. But it__ worth it. That__ what you don__ know. Yet.

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.

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

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.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

Yellow joy was radiating from her. When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.

To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.

Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy place.

Under her thick pancake makeup, her sin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy place.

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.

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

Coffee, she'd 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.

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

The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.

Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.

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