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 More Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen More Quotes From Sarah Addison Allen I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong. I escape into food. But some people escape into books. Some into relationships that might not be good for them. The three main characters in 'The Sugar Queen' struggle with each of these comforts-turned-crutches. Sarah Addison Allen queengoodfoodpeople I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Sarah Addison Allen alicehuge-fanfanhuge The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual. Sarah Addison Allen moredaythinkdifferent I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words. Sarah Addison Allen livewordsthinkworld I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job. Sarah Addison Allen jobmedadlove Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now. Sarah Addison Allen teenagerregretmoving