Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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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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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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Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.
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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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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 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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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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If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.
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Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.
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It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
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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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Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?
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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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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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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
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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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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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The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.
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I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
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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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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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Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
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Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .