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Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.
Sarah Addison Allen
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I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
Sarah Addison Allen
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How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?
Sarah Addison Allen
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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.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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
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Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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
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Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.
Sarah Addison Allen
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If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there's more to what's written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don't see.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
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
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All we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other, who will?
Sarah Addison Allen
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How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.
Sarah Addison Allen
