At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, S...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Our first guests were unconventional- free spirits and hippies. We seemed to attract oddballs, and w...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's troub...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jum...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She finally understood that, no matter how hard you try, you can't make someone love you. You can't ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there a...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN He wasn't used to people saying no, and Eby felt sorry for him, the way she'd always felt sorry for ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN And you couldn't make a snowman in your neighborhood because?
Because you weren't there.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Josey?” She heard her mother’s voice in the hall, then the thud of her cane as she came closer. ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN He fell in love with a skinny stray cat that would skulk around the dining hall during meals. Every ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN So you stay, you don't tell anyone, is that it?"
"Sure," Della Lee said easily.
"That's bl...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Ice queens didn't break, after all. They melted. And Marco didn't have enough warmth for that.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Even at seventy-four, with a limp from a hip replacement, Margaret could still enter a room and fill...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It sm...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dyin...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there w...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She'd fallen into the best part of her past.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold en...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She went to the window. A fine sheen of sugary frost covered everything in sight, and white smoke ro...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really w...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Safe is just another word for scared.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN It feels like he's taken your heart, doesn't it?....Like he's reached in and pulled it out from you....
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, t...
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...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN But Claire had long ago realized, even after those constant dreams of her mother leaving faded away,...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Soy milk and two sugars." Just this past week, Rachel had become convinced that how people took thei...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's s...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Stop it, she told herself.

There was only so much she could control.

But that ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I'm homesick all the time," she said, still not looking at him "I just don't know where home is. The...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Bay's room was the first one at the top of the staircase. It was painted a dove gray that turned pea...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The first thing she noticed when the light popped on was that the wallpaper had rows and rows of tin...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Back then she used to hide from her mother in the secret space just to worry her, but now she stocke...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still linger...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She'd just walked into heaven. And her grandmother was right there, in every scent.
Sugary and ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardene...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN On the day the tree bloomed in the fall, when its white apple blossoms fell and covered the ground l...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She opened her eyes slowly and saw that a pale lavender moth had come to a rest on the back of her h...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN This was an adventure. She was alive and awake and in charge, and Devin needed to see that. A kaleid...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Kate could feel a strange heat along the back of her neck, something she hadn't felt in a while. It ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Mom! Look. This one is my favorite," Devin said, pulling out a faded pink dress with a red plaid sas...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN This was an adventure. She was alive and awake and in charge, and Devin needed to see that. A kaleid...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN ...she seethed like water the second before it rolls to a boil.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN If you don’t like the ending, you make up a new one.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Kate picked up the carafe and poured some coffee into a cup. She added sugar and cream until it was ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN ...they all watched Devin run up to meet the other girls. For a moment Kate felt indescribably sad, ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN There was such a feeling of peace around them, it was soft and pink and smelled of butter.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She'd spent enough time in this life to know that not everything will go your way. She'd read enough...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Old hands can hold memories of good things.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN They made her think of her grandmere, who had lost her husband and two of her sons in the war. She h...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN being mad at someone for acting exactly the way you assume they’ll act is no one’s fault but you...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN But he’d loved only Eby. You didn't need a mirror to tell you that you were beautiful when you had...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN They were wounded. They were victims. If only they had everything they'd ever wanted, then they'd be...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Bulahdeen ignored her. "I taught literature for nearly forty years. The books I read when I was twen...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN We are conduits for happiness.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. I...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She knew him in that way you can only know a person you remember as a child, like if you cracked awa...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The world was not like him and was not going to change for him. The trick to getting through life, s...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN One thing Billy knew that most people don't know is that the longer you have a wish, the closer you ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyon...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn’t get anywhere.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Eby knew all too well that there was a fine line when it came to grief. If you ignore it, it goes aw...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportun...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from on...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. B...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way a...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with im...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was calle...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt....
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull the...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you c...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassur...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with t...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. Y...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always rec...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN There was a strange but universal understanding among women. On some level all women knew, they all ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in lo...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday morni...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Lea...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN What is this?" Emily asked, looking in the largest Styrofoam container. There was a bunch of dry-loo...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for somethi...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She wrote the names of the day's cakes on the board: traditional Southern red velvet cake and peach ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Was it really that simple? Choosing a life? ...
Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump. <...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The neighborhood homeowners always knew when she ran by, because they suddenly felt the desire to or...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own hear...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The apple tree in the background, just barely visible, was stretching a single limb out to her, as i...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN They knew 'mama' and 'papa'. We knew 'yes' and 'no'.
SARAH ALLEN It was long, stressful, but fun. I hit my spots and my defense backed me up and we came through with...
SARAH ALLEN To learn to be loved for the first time.
SARAH ALLEN They always want to answer the phone but they never know what to say after they pick it up.
SARAH ALLEN Out of the clear blue sky, they called and said we've got three children for you.
SARAH ALLEN We're older and a lot of people thought we were crazy. A lot of people still think we're crazy. They...
SARAH ALLEN I had planned to adopt. I was single.
SARAH ALLEN Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t...
JOSEPH ADDISON I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dyin...
JOSEPH ADDISON The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But th...
JOSEPH ADDISON Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
ADDISON WALKER Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he ...
JOSEPH ADDISON My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON The plan is when I go to college I plan on taking four years off. School is definitely my priority n...
ADDISON PHILLIPS I definitely want to do this for the rest of my life, whether I do it professionally or just for fun...
ADDISON PHILLIPS It's definitely been a great learning experience. This is about as hard as some of the courses are g...
ADDISON PHILLIPS It's been fun. When I do well it's so rewarding because I'm in here with all the professionals and I...
ADDISON PHILLIPS Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.
ADDISON MIZNER Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
ADDISON MIZNER Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it
ADDISON MIZNER Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit
ADDISON MIZNER Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate
ADDISON MIZNER The market is reacting to worries over supplies during the coming driving season.
ADDISON ARMSTRONG We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on pr...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put do...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG That was a shocking gasoline build.
ADDISON ARMSTRONG Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG I think we're still in a very headline-driven market and the geopolitical concerns are going to cont...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above anothe...
JOSEPH ADDISON There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISON Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
JOSEPH ADDISON The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somethi...
JOSEPH ADDISON Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somet...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has s...
JOSEPH ADDISON Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
JOSEPH ADDISON If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is...
ADDISON MOORE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
ADDISON MIZNER The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
ADDISON MIZNER Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,...
JOSEPH ADDISON Poets are born, not paid.
ADDISON MIZNER A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and sereni...
JOSEPH ADDISON Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment...
JOSEPH ADDISON A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISON Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most se...
JOSEPH ADDISON Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of...
JOSEPH ADDISON Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of ma...
JOSEPH ADDISON A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own s...
JOSEPH ADDISON To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusemen...
JOSEPH ADDISON The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will rende...
JOSEPH ADDISON Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
JOSEPH ADDISON What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
JOSEPH ADDISON Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are oft...
JOSEPH ADDISON Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
JOSEPH ADDISON 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more livel...
JOSEPH ADDISON A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recen...
JOSEPH ADDISON As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
JOSEPH ADDISON