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

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

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

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

—W. C. Fields

People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.

—Dagobert D. Runes

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

—Henry Drummond

People change and forget to tell each other.

—Lillian Hellman