Sarah Addison Allen - Garden Spells (2007)

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

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

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

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

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

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When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.

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But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.

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When you know something's wrong, but you don't know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.

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She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

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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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