02c. 1971 ADEvery life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
03c. 1971 ADWe'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?Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
04c. 1971 ADCoffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
05c. 1971 ADIf a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run awaySarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
06c. 1971 ADPeople always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
07c. 1971 ADSometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
08c. 1971 ADYou'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
09c. 1971 ADHappiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
11c. 1971 ADFate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
12c. 1971 ADStability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
13c. 1971 ADA hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.She would make it light enough to float away.She reached over to open the window. To float to her daughter.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
14c. 1971 ADDid I ever tell you about the day I finally let go of him? That day that led me to you?Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
15c. 1971 ADBut relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from fallingSarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
16c. 1971 ADIt felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
17c. 1971 ADBut that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
18c. 1971 AD...Agatha had declared that her friendship to Georgie still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
19c. 1971 ADWhy were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
20c. 1971 ADThere was a strange but universal understanding among women. On some level all women knew, they all understood, the fear of being outnumbered, of being helpless. It throbbed in their chests when they thought about the times they left stores and were followed. The knocks on their car windows as they were sitting alone at red lights, and strangers asking for rides. Having too much to drink and losing their ability to be forceful enough to just say no. Smiling at strange men coming on to them, not wanting to hurt their feelings, not wanting to make a scene. All women remembered these things, even if they had never happened to them personally. It was a part of their collective unconscious.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
21c. 1971 ADShe looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
22c. 1971 ADWe decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
23c. 1971 ADIt had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.Sarah Addison Allen / quote ↗
