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

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

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

—José Ortega y Gasset

You may delay, but time will not.

—Benjamin Franklin

Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.

—Ellen DeGeneres

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

Percentage wise, it is 100% easier not to do things than to do them, and so much fun not to do them—especially when you were supposed to do them. In terms of instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.

—John Mulaney