Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.
Sarah Addison Allen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sarah Addison Allen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 30
Author
Asheville
North Carolina
Katie Gallagher
Married
Wasn
Decision
Help
Point
Partner
Helping
Trusted
Someone
Partners
Important
Decisions
More quotes by Sarah Addison Allen
I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
Sarah Addison Allen
Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.
Sarah Addison Allen
People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.
Sarah Addison Allen
People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.
Sarah Addison Allen
It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.
Sarah Addison Allen
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
Sarah Addison Allen
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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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
Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.
Sarah Addison Allen
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
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.
Sarah Addison Allen
Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
Sarah Addison Allen
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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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
For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
Sarah Addison Allen
Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.
Sarah Addison Allen
She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.
Sarah Addison Allen
When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.
Sarah Addison Allen
I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
Sarah Addison Allen
People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
Sarah Addison Allen
