Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

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You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

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

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Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

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

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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.

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How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.

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Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.

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Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.

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She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

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How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?

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Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

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People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

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After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

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Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

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There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.

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Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.

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It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.

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There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

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Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over...

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I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.

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Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

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When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.

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To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.

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That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.

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He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're in the ocean and a wave hits you. It's so soft and coll that it surprised you that it has such strength.

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If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there's more to what's written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don't see.

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It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

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Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble.... This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

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The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.

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