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

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

—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells

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

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

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

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

—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells

What they don't tell you is that you're more confused at twenty than you were at seventeen.

—Penelope Douglas in Falling Away

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

—Pablo Picasso

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

—Bill Cosby

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

—John J. Plomp