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 More Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen More Quotes From Sarah Addison Allen She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches. Sarah Addison Allen peaches southern tears Safe is just another word for scared. Sarah Addison Allen scared safe Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off. Sarah Addison Allen peppers going-away suffering There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home. Sarah Addison Allen smell air home It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good. Sarah Addison Allen sunshine feel-good breakfast Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something. Sarah Addison Allen stability adventure hands For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life. Sarah Addison Allen changing-your-life stubborn soul If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away Sarah Addison Allen skins running men When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple. Sarah Addison Allen wrinkles winter beautiful The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon. Sarah Addison Allen spoons cake sweet People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long. Sarah Addison Allen life-is-too-short regret long Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for. Sarah Addison Allen keep-trying broke trying Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . . Sarah Addison Allen distance grandmother sky I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you. Sarah Addison Allen crazy If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok. Sarah Addison Allen ifs would-be Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen. Sarah Addison Allen girl silly mean Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss. Sarah Addison Allen growing-up girl loss Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all. Sarah Addison Allen grandmother secret children People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted. Sarah Addison Allen grows people You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it? Sarah Addison Allen you-like-it why-not who-you-are
