Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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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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Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.
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Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.
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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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Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer's progress, helpless, almost as if they couldn't look away. "They remind you of something good--picnics or carrying sparklers around at night. Southern men will hold doors open for you, they'll hold you after you yell at them, and they'll hold on to their pride no matter what. Be careful what they tell you, though. They have a way of making you believe anything, because they say it that way.
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She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.
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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
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But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.
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He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.
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To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.
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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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I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
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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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He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.
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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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Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.
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No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.
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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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I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.