Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
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She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.
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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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When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.
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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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She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
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Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.
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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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She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.
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Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.
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Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.
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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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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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To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.
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Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything
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When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.
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Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.
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Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
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Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.
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It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.
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You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
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My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
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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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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.