Sarah Addison Allen
Sarah Addison Allen
Sarah Addison Allenis an American author. She grew up in Asheville, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where she graduated with a degree in literature. In early 2011 Allen was diagnosed with breast cancer and completed a round of chemotherapy by October of the same year...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
believe smell taste
But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.
hands water stills
...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.
book mind stories
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.
world mood depends
How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.
autumn fruit aging
She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.
people trying making-friends
She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.
freedom needed
I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
kissing thinking heaven
I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
inspirational fall cat
Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.
sunshine feel-good breakfast
It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.
southern tears peaches
She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
good-morning sweet good-day
The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.
selfish insecure scared
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?
regret teenager moving
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.