Awilda > Awilda's Quotes

“On the day the tree bloomed in the fall, when its white apple blossoms fell and covered the ground like snow, it was tradition for the Waverleys to gather in the garden like survivors of some great catastrophe, hugging one another, laughing as they touched faces and arms, making sure they were all okay, grateful to have gotten through it.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.”
― Earnest Hemingway

“Write drunk; edit sober.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost