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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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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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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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How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?
 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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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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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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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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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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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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How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.
 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
					 
