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...
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CountryUnited States of America
hurt expectations way
Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.
air garlands
The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.
air tails kites
Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
opportunity missing cups
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.
past enough hard
Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.
fall autumn cinnamon
It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
memories blow childhood
Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?
real heart magic
Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.
letting-go firsts frost
First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.
happened ifs
If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.
mother children crazy
Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
crazy doors watches
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.
love sweet kissing
It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.
ice expectations chocolate
Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.