Quotes By Author: Sarah Addison Allen

“A 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.”

“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”

“Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”

“People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it’s too long.”

“Coffee, 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.”

“Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.”

“I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”