I know he's a good baby... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.

— Sarah Addison Allen

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

— Sarah Addison Allen

It 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

It 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

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

— Sarah Addison Allen

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

— Sarah Addison Allen

It was a remarkable realization to By, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

— Sarah Addison Allen

It was hard not to feel sorry for a life that had no purpose of its own... His only purpose, it seemed, was to come into her mother's life in order to send her home. For that, Bay decided, she would be grateful. For the rest, though, she wondered if she would ever be able to forgive him. She hoped she wouldn't remember him long enough to find out.

— Sarah Addison Allen

It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.

— Sarah Addison Allen

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.

— Sarah Addison Allen