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.

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

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

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

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

—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Freedom in not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

—Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

—Edward Abbey

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

—Frank Lloyd Wright