Sarah Addison Allen People Quotations

I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong. I escape into food. But some people escape into books. Some into relationships that might not be good for them. The three main characters in 'The Sugar Queen' struggle with each of these comforts-turned-crutches.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.

Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

But 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.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.

I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?

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.

He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.