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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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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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Sarah Addison Allen
Born:
March 30, 1971
(age 53)
Bio:
Sarah Addison Allen an American and New York Times bestselling author. She grew up in Asheville, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where she graduated with a degree in literature.
Known for:
Garden Spells (2007)
The Girl Who Chased the Moon (2010)
The Sugar Queen (2008)
First Frost (2015)
The Peach Keeper (2011)
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