Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

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

Sarah Addison Allen
Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

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But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.

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Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

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If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

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For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.

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You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

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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.

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Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

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When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

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

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She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.

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That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

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To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.

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Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

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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.

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Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.

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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.

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He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

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When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.

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She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.

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I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has always been tough for me." I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me.

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She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

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

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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.

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No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

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She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

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Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

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