Sarah Addison Allen Quotes - Page 2

But she stopped herself. That wouldn't make it right. You didn't forgive because it was the only choice you thought you had. That didn't make it forgiveness, that made it desperation. She'd always been too desperate about Jake. Always.
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He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side.
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It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.
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Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.
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The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
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You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.
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Yellow joy was radiating from her. When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.
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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
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Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy place.
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Under her thick pancake makeup, her sin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy place.
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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.
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The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.
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Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.
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It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
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We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.
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Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
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There was a strange but universal understanding among women. On some level all women knew, they all understood, the fear of being outnumbered, of being helpless. It throbbed in their chests when they thought about the times they left stores and were followed. The knocks on their car windows as they were sitting alone at red lights, and strangers asking for rides. Having too much to drink and losing their ability to be forceful enough to just say no. Smiling at strange men coming on to them, not wanting to hurt their feelings, not wanting to make a scene. All women remembered these things, even if they had never happened to them personally. It was a part of their collective unconscious.
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She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.
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...Agatha had declared that her friendship to Georgie still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.
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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.
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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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But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling
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Did I ever tell you about the day I finally let go of him? That day that led me to you?
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A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.She would make it light enough to float away.She reached over to open the window. To float to her daughter.
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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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I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
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Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
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You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
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Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
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People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
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If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
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Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.
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We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?
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Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.
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I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
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