Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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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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Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.
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It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
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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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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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Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.
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When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.
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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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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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Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.
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If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.
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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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It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
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But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.
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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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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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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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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
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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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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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Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .
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The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.
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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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I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.