Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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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 lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
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The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
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Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
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Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.
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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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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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Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
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She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?
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Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.
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Safe is just another word for scared.
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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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When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.
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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.
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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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When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.
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I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?
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I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
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Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.