Sarah Addison Allen - The Girl Who Chased the Moon (2010)

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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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The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

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My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

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

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

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

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

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Always make your needs and expectations known, she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

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Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.

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

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

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

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

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