Garden Spells Quotes

“She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?”
― 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

“It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just mad you feel good.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“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

“Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“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

“When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

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

“But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

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

“Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they got older.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells