Sarah Addison Allen - Quodid

About

Sarah Addison Allen (also known by the pen name Katie Gallagher) is an American and New York Times bestselling author.

Quotes from Sarah Addison Allen

Life is about experience. You can’t hold on to everything.

—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells

life memory experience clinging

I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone.

—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells

relationships experience loss

Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Sugar Queen

pain coping sharing

When you’re a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

life friendship aging age luxury

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse.

—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells

accomplishment change procrastination do it

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? She would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

time childhood loss growing up

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

love relationships people reciprocation

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 in The Sugar Queen

Life is about experience. You can't hold on to everything.

—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells

life experience

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

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 in The Peach Keeper

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 in The Sugar Queen

Books

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