Lauren

“She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

“All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.”
― John F. Kennedy