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Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.
Sarah Addison Allen
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For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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.
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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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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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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.
Sarah Addison Allen
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It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .
Sarah Addison Allen
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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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
Sarah Addison Allen
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The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.
Sarah Addison Allen
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I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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.
Sarah Addison Allen
