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...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.
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When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights. It was cold enough for scarves and shirts worn in layers, like camouflage. It was cold enough for her lucky red cardigan, which she swore had a power of its own. She loved this time of year. Summer was tedious with the light dresses she pretended to be comfortable in while secretly sure she looked like a loaf of white bread wearing a belt. The cold was such a relief.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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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Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.
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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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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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Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.
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First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.
Sarah Addison Allen
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I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
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Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.
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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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There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.
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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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Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.
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It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.
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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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Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
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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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But one thing she Rachel did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.
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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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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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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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It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
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...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.
Sarah Addison Allen