Quote

Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

Sarah Addison Allen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sarah Addison Allen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 30
Author
Asheville
North Carolina
Katie Gallagher
Felt
Chili
Away
Peppers
Back
Embarrassment
Nothing
Burned
Take
Throat
Make
Suffer
Like
Eating
Suffering
Eased

More quotes by Sarah Addison Allen

Image
People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
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.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
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.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
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 make up a new one.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.
Sarah Addison Allen
Image
Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.
Sarah Addison Allen