Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

The outside world might have finally turned into autumn, but inside the Waverley house it still smelled of summer. It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds like true-love hearts.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Summer was a lady who didn't give up her spotlight easily.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Eby wanted to say so much to her. She wanted to say that waking up is the most important part of grieving, that so many women in their family failed to do it, and she was proud of Kate for fighting her way back. But Eby didn't say anything. She could fix a lot of things, but family wasn't one of them. It was one of the hardest things she'd ever had to come to terms with.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

On the day the tree bloomed in the fall, when its white apple blossoms fell and covered the ground like snow, it was tradition for the Waverleys to gather in the garden like survivors of some great catastrophe, hugging one another, laughing as they touched faces and arms, making sure they were all okay, grateful to have gotten through it.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Once he'd asked, Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room.She had laughed and said, I've read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If I read them now, the endings will have changed.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

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

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories.

~ Sarah Addison Allen