Anna > Anna's Quotes

“I'm homesick all the time," she said, still not looking at him "I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it,” she said carefully. “Belonging has always been tough for me.”

“I can be your home,” he said quietly. “Belong to me.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.”
― Sarah Addison Allen

“It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again. ”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“She'd fallen into the best part of her past.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.”
― Sarah Addison Allen

“I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.”
― Sarah Addison Allen

“Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“When someone needs help, you help. Right?”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

“Just So You Know

You fall in love with every book you touch. You never break the spine or tear the pages. That would be cruel. You have secret favorites but, when asked, you say that you could never choose. But did you know that books fall in love with you, too?

They watch you from the shelf while you sleep. Are you dreaming of them, they wonder, in that wistful mood books are prone to at night when they’re bored and there’s nothing else to do but tease the cat.

Remember that pale yellow book you read when you were sixteen? It changed your world, that book. It changed your dreams. You carried it around until it was old and thin and sparkles no longer rose from the pages and filled the air when you opened it, like it did when it was new. You should know that it still thinks of you. It would like to get together sometime, maybe over coffee next month, so you can see how much you’ve both changed.

And the book about the donkey your father read to you every night when you were three, it’s still around – older, a little worse for wear. But it still remembers the way your laughter made its pages tremble with joy.

Then there was that book, just last week, in the bookstore. It caught your eye. You looked away quickly, but it was too late. You felt the rush. You picked it up and stroked your hand over its glassy cover. It knew you were The One. But, for whatever reason, you put it back and walked away. Maybe you were trying to be practical. Maybe you thought there wasn’t room enough, time enough, energy enough.

But you’re thinking about it now, aren’t you?
You fall in love so easily.
But just so you know, they do, too.”
― Sarah Addison Allen

“Her friendship . . . still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

“I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“life is too short to spend time with people' who suck the happiness "out of u"..”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon