Sarah Addison Allen - The Sugar Queen (2008)

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He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

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It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

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He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.

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The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

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Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.

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You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

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It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.

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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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She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

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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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He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.

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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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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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