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 More Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen More Quotes From Sarah Addison Allen Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting. Sarah Addison Allen fittryingneeds Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have. Sarah Addison Allen want-somethingmagicthinking Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone. Sarah Addison Allen crazymotherchildren When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights. It was cold enough for scarves and shirts worn in layers, like camouflage. It was cold enough for her lucky red cardigan, which she swore had a power of its own. She loved this time of year. Summer was tedious with the light dresses she pretended to be comfortable in while secretly sure she looked like a loaf of white bread wearing a belt. The cold was such a relief. Sarah Addison Allen lightwhitesummer Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever? Sarah Addison Allen childhoodblowmemories It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon. Sarah Addison Allen cobblersautumnfall 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 chocolate-ice-creammagicexpectations When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again. Sarah Addison Allen cupsmissingopportunity 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 falling-in-loveknowingpeople 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 kissingsweetlove Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt. Sarah Addison Allen hurtexpectationsway No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being. Sarah Addison Allen dignitycompromiseshould Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence. Sarah Addison Allen unfinishedstrangequiet It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us. Sarah Addison Allen being-yourselftimeinspirational 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 lighthairsweet To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him. Sarah Addison Allen this-daykissingwater She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her. Sarah Addison Allen acceptedbooklooks Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have. Sarah Addison Allen girl 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 tonguewantedworld There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters. Sarah Addison Allen daughtermotherbeautiful
