{"author":"Sarah Addison Allen","author_id":"Sarah+Addison+Allen","total_quotes":97,"quotes":[{"text":"I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.","author":"Sarah Addison Allen","tags":["autumn","fall","first-frost","garden-spells","lost-lake","sarah-addison-allen","waverly"],"id":4549,"author_id":"Sarah+Addison+Allen"},{"text":"Did you get rid of that sweater like I asked?'Yes, Mother,' Josey said.'I wasn't trying to be mean the other day. It just doesn't look good on you.'Yes, Mother,' Josey said.The truth was, that sweater, that color, looked good on her daughter. And every time she wore it, it hinted at something that scared Margaret.Josey was growing into her beauty.Margaret watched Josey leave.She used to be a beautiful woman, the most beautiful woman around.She brought out the photo again.But that was forever ago.","author":"Sarah Addison Allen","tags":["jealousy","josey-cirrini","margaret-cirrini","mother-and-daughter"],"id":8973,"author_id":"Sarah+Addison+Allen"},{"text":"He hadn't meant to get so angry at Morgan. He didn't often get angry at other people. There was no sense in it. The person you were angry at was rarely ever repentant. Now, getting angry with yourself had some merit. It showed you had sense enough to chastise the one person who had any hope of benefiting from it. And he was plenty angry with himself. For many things.","author":"Sarah Addison Allen","tags":["anger","improvement","self-realization"],"id":9895,"author_id":"Sarah+Addison+Allen"},{"text":"Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, 'When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.","author":"Sarah Addison Allen","tags":["lies","truths"],"id":18228,"author_id":"Sarah+Addison+Allen"},{"text":"When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.","author":"Sarah Addison Allen","tags":["life","life-lesson"],"id":18688,"author_id":"Sarah+Addison+Allen"},{"text":"We 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.","author":"Sarah Addison Allen","tags":["women"],"id":23722,"author_id":"Sarah+Addison+Allen"},{"text":"Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything.","author":"Sarah Addison Allen","tags":["life","life-experience"],"id":25596,"author_id":"Sarah+Addison+Allen"},{"text":"Mary had become anxious in her old age, and she hated being away from the house for long. She'd hold the girls' hands tightly and calm herself by telling them what she would make for first frost that year- pork tenderloins with nasturtiums, dill potatoes, pumpkin bread, chicory coffee. And the cupcakes, of course, with all different frostings, because what was first frost without frosting? Claire had loved it all, but Sydney had only listened when their grandmother talked of frosting. Caramel, rosewater-pistachio, chocolate almond.","author":"Sarah Addison Allen","tags":["autumn","claire-waverley","first-frost","food","mary-waverley","sydney-waverley","waverleys"],"id":30466,"author_id":"Sarah+Addison+Allen"},{"text":"At the end of the evening, Paxton and Willa walked Agatha out to the nurse's car, after Agatha had given them a blind tour of the Madam, pointing out by feel and memory everything she remembered about the house. She and Georgie sliding down the banister and their skirts flying up. Playing dolls in Georgie's room. Having pineapple upside-down cake the Jacksons' cook would make in a cast-iron frying pan, so that the brown sugar on top turned crispy. A slide-away secret compartment in the bookcase where they used to leave notes for each other.","author":"Sarah Addison Allen","tags":["agatha-osgood","georgie-jackson","memories"],"id":30671,"author_id":"Sarah+Addison+Allen"},{"text":"Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.","author":"Sarah Addison Allen","tags":["magic","snow","southern","the-south","winter"],"id":36319,"author_id":"Sarah+Addison+Allen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":97,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}