Quotes from Sarah Addison Allen

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

Her friendship . . . still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

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

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

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

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

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.

He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn't looked there in a long, long time. He'd forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.

I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can't make it good or magical. I couldn't even read a book where a character had cancer, for a while... But now I've reached a point where I don't think about cancer nonstop anymore, and sometimes I worry about that - I'm going to forget what I went through; I'm going to forget how horrible it was.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

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.

all we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other, who will?

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.

Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .

Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.