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That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.
Sarah Addison Allen -
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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How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?
Sarah Addison Allen -
Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
Sarah Addison Allen -
He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.
Sarah Addison Allen -
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.
Sarah Addison Allen -
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 -
To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
Sarah Addison Allen
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I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.
Sarah Addison Allen -
I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
Sarah Addison Allen -
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.
Sarah Addison Allen -
When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.
Sarah Addison Allen -
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.
Sarah Addison Allen -
I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.
Sarah Addison Allen
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I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has always been tough for me." I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me.
Sarah Addison Allen -
Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.
Sarah Addison Allen -
Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
Sarah Addison Allen -
He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.
Sarah Addison Allen -
Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
Sarah Addison Allen -
Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.
Sarah Addison Allen
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He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're in the ocean and a wave hits you. It's so soft and coll that it surprised you that it has such strength.
Sarah Addison Allen -
How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.
Sarah Addison Allen -
I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
Sarah Addison Allen -
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.
Sarah Addison Allen