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“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
“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.” ― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
“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
Lindsay wrote: "“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 i..."That is one of my favorites too!
“You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?” ― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
“She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
“My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon
“Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon
“One thing Billy knew that most people don't know is that the longer you have a wish, the closer you get to it becoming true. Most people never get what they want because they change what they want, change it into something more practical or reachable. ...Billy felt sorry for the other people who gave up their wishes so easily.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake
“After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake
"When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again."-Sarah Addison Allen,Lost Lake
Lindsay wrote: "“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 i..."This is also my favorite!
(I'm a librarian with a thousand books)
{Not enough!!}
I will have to reread Lost Lake as I was not paying attention to favourite quotes, but from the other books that I have read:"Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they got older."
Sarah Addison Allen - Garden Spells page 50
"Summer was a lady who didn't give up her spotlight easily."
Sarah Addison Allen - Garden Spells page 216
"Books were good for a story or to teach a card trick to two, but what were they really? Just paper and string and glue. They evoked emotions and that was why people felt a connection with them. But they had no emotions themselves. They didn't know betrayal. They didn't know hurt."
Sarah Addison Allen - The Sugar Queen page 36
"The night was blue-black and brittle, a perfect late-fall evening."
Sarah Addison Allen - The Sugar Queen page 83
"Time Lines, like strings of thread, were weaving together forming connections."
Sarah Addison Allen - The Sugar Queen page 123
"At first the snow was light and mixed with rain like confetti white and silver, at an anniversary party."
Sarah Addison Allen - The Sugar Queen page 162
"In the autumn, the entire backyard became a mass of lollipop-yellow leaves, so bright they lit up the night like daylight."
Sarah Addison Allen - The Peach Keeper page 18
"It shrank everything down, Alice in Wonderlandly."
Sarah Addison Allen - The Peach Keeper page 51
"Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss."
Sarah Addison Allen - The Peach Keeper page 53
"Their future were sparkles in the air, waiting to be caught like fireflies."
Sarah Addison Allen - The Peach Keeper page 144
"The two giant oaks in the front yard looked like flustered Ladies caught mid-curtsy, their starched green leaf-dresses, swaying in the wind."
Sarah Addison Allen - The Girl Who Chased the Moon page 1
"To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she'd left it."
Sarah Addison Allen - The Girl Who Chased the Moon page 234
"He didn't often get angry at other people. There was no sense in it. The person you were angry at was rarely ever repentant. Now, getting angry with yourself had some merit. It showed you had sense enough to chastise the one person who had any hope of benefiting from it."
Sarah Addison Allen - The Girl Who Chased the Moon page 251
-smile-
Rather than choosing a *favorite* quote, which I think would be impossible, I've settled on a small handful of quotes from Garden Spells, the last SAA book I've finished. Without further ado, here they are:"Making good money was almost as bad as becoming a Republican" from the ideology of Tyler Hughes' parents (23).
So many times, people struggling in relationships believe the philosophy in Evanelle's mind. She thinks that "[s]ometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to better, even when they weren't. Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they got older" (50).
She also believes that everyone should know that "[y]ou can't lose what you don't have" (83).
Tyler thinks through at least one deep truth as he attempts to gain knowledge of Claire through Anna. His thoughts include that "[s]ome things couldn't be explained. Some things could. Sometimes, you liked the explanation. Sometimes you didn't. That's when you called it a myth" (188).
Evanelle's wisdom includes the succinct, "You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?" (200).
Looking at clouds and unusual night skies is one of my favorite things. I love the description of Henry's nighttime experience. He's laying on the grass and "stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through from the other side. He took deep breaths of the wet grass and warm roses and the black pavement from the highway that was still so hot from the summer sun that it melted at the edges and smelled like fire" (238). In fact, that is one of my favorite passages.
Yes, I do love SAA books. All of them, and I just might have to read them all twice.
“You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?”
“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
that really resonates for me.
She accepted it from then on. Books liked her.The Sugar Queen by SAA.
I know books like me.
Lindsay wrote: "“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 i..."Love this quote :) and it's true
Mary wrote: "“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 i..."This is soooo true...and I have LOTS of company in my book room! :-)
She accepted it from then on. Books liked her.Books wanted to look after her.
My favorite quote from the first chapter of First Frost is "Too much freedom can be a dangerous thing for a girl in love."
You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?” ― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
“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
"People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long." Agatha, The Peach Keeper
“She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
"It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon." Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
I love the quote about Bay's imagination that the house seemed to preen a little when she entered, which makes the house with its one turret a character in its own special way. Love the wonderful and descriptive writing about the leaves and the comparison to cobbler. A "must read"!!
Loving all of Sarah's books, as a 7th grade Language Arts teacher, I love one especially from her THE GIRL WHO CHASED THE MOON. The whole book overflows relationships, family ties, and secrets—with a dose of magic. Sometimes, just a simple little read that tickles your soul is the best read. ;-)My Fav-quote is from p. 102 “It was natural, she supposed, to be tense around him. Your peers when you’re a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life’s great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.”
It's so funny because it is so true! My students and peers share this very thought with me often enough, LOL...and at 57, I am learning to "stay in my skin" and be who I am today....but wow--it took a lot of work to get here!!
Donna wrote: "Loving all of Sarah's books, as a 7th grade Language Arts teacher, I love one especially from her THE GIRL WHO CHASED THE MOON. The whole book overflows relationships, family ties, and secrets—wit..."Hi Donna, in high school I was always the ugly duckling and as such was never recognized at any of my reunions and when I actually talked to somebody from my class, they were so shocked that I had gotten my teeth straightened and looked so wholly different that they didn't know what to say to me. I was very picked on and an easy target being sensitive and bookish so what you had to say here really struck me this morning and I wanted to thank you for sharing it. :))
"Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over." -RachelThe Peach Keeper - page 7
"Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said...The Girl Who Chased the Moon (pg 98)
I have lived all my life in the South and I know that this is just so true!
― The Sugar Queen“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.”
