Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.
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For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
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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 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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Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.
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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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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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If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.
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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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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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Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .
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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
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It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
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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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I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
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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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It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
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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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Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
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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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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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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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He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.