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She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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.
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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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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I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
Sarah Addison Allen
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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
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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.
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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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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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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I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?
Sarah Addison Allen
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But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.
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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How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.
Sarah Addison Allen
