Sarah Addison Allen - The Peach Keeper (2011)

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

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Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.

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But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

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Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

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Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right.

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That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

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It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

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She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.

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Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.

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Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

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

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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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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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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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Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love....

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If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

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Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

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

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

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