I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already. Sarah Addison Allen More Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen More Quotes From Sarah Addison Allen He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're in the ocean and a wave hits you. It's so soft and coll that it surprised you that it has such strength. Sarah Addison Allen oceanearshair When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes. Sarah Addison Allen airknows Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery. Sarah Addison Allen true-friendstickswould-be We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet. Sarah Addison Allen knows 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 love-alwayshurtknows Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them. Sarah Addison Allen estate-agentsspectaclesmen There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it. Sarah Addison Allen malesart ...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on. Sarah Addison Allen stillswaterhands I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back. Sarah Addison Allen finding-happinesslosttrying He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood. Sarah Addison Allen swimmingeffortdifferences Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over. Sarah Addison Allen superstitionstryingmen She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love. Sarah Addison Allen daughterstrongdream But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway. Sarah Addison Allen tomatoesmushroomsgrateful Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress. Sarah Addison Allen i-amprogressreadingwork At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics. Sarah Addison Allen kingdaymusictime Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true. Sarah Addison Allen queentruethingsme There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck. Sarah Addison Allen i-amridemesinging Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it. Sarah Addison Allen standyousucceeddark 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. Sarah Addison Allen goodsometimescharacterbook Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient. Sarah Addison Allen asksaypatientbrain
