Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

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First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

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

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

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When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.

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Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

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He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

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He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn't looked there in a long, long time. He'd forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.

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It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

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

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I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

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It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

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You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?

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She was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.

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He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.

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The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

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A sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

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

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Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

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

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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.

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Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

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My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

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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.

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We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?

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Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

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It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.

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

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