Top 100 Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
#2. Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.
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#3. The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.
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#5. People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.
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#6. Oh, please. Everyone in this town always says that, like you have to be born here to understand things. I understand plenty. You're only as weird as you want to be.
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#7. She wished she had known back then. Known that happiness isn't a point in time you leave behind. It's what's ahead of you. Every single day.
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#8. It had taken her a long time to realize that a prison sometimes isn't a prison at all. Sometimes, it's simply a door you assume is locked because you've never tried to open it.
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#9. Like all fairy tales, the beginning is always beautiful, a ruse to draw you into something you are anticipating.
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#10. Her grandmother used to say something about how the air around you will turn white when things are about to change.
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#11. Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have.
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#12. Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.
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#13. 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?
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#14. Nd where a neighbour bakes hummingbird cakes in the hope of bringing back a lost love.
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#15. People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
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#17. He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.
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#18. 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.
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#20. She'd spent enough time in this life to know that not everything will go your way. She'd read enough books to know that they weren't all happy endings.
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#21. 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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#22. She knew that who you are is a stone set deep inside you. You can spend all your life trying to dig that stone out, or you can build around it. Your choice. Sitting there in bed, she thought about
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#24. We need to set things in order, they all thought as Bay ran down the street every afternoon after school. But, as soon as she passed, their thoughts quickly drifted back to where they'd been before -
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#25. He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.
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#26. Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.
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#27. And you couldn't make a snowman in your neighborhood because?
Because you weren't there.
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#28. She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.
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#30. Young girls always know. They know older women look at them and see what they've left behind and can't get back. It's a truth everyone knows but no one acknowledges: There's nothing more powerful than an eighteen-year-old girl.
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#31. I know he's a good baby ... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.
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#33. She did know that it's remarkably easy to fall in love with someone who is already in love with you. It's a little like falling in love with yourself.
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#36. Her color was high and her brown eyes were shining. Her gorgeous red hair was a thick mass of curls that fell down her back. She looked like a painting, fragile, caught in a moment she couldn't get out of.
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#37. The neighborhood homeowners always knew when she ran by, because they suddenly felt the desire to organize their sock drawers and finally replace those burned out light-bulbs they'd been meaning to.
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#39. He was one of those men for whom all their fatigue went to their eyes in a sleepy, sexy kind of way.
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#40. I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.
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#41. For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
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#42. But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it.
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#43. 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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#44. So I told him his bread was ugly, and he called me a dough diva. A dough diva. Of all the nerve! We're going out on Saturday.
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#45. Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.
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#46. The morning sun on her white hair and pale face made her seem almost translucent. She'd been a beautiful woman in her day, with wide eyes, high cheekbones, and a long, thin nose. Sometimes you could still catch sight of that beauty, and it was like looking through enchanted glass.
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#47. A sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.
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#48. Claire lifted her glass after everyone had eaten. "Everyone make a toast. To food and flowers," she said.
"To love and laughter," Tyler said.
"To old and new," Henry said.
"To what's next," Evanelle said.
"To the apple tree," Bay said.
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#50. I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.
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#51. Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
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#52. 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 cool that it surprises you that it has such strength.
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#53. Her mother would tell her she was beautiful and that everything was all right.
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#54. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one.
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#55. When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.
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#56. When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.
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#57. There was a long-ago saying that was still heard from time to time in town: Waverleys know where to find the truth, they just can't stomach it. Bay
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#58. But don't define yourself by what you *don't* want to do. Define yourself by what you do want to do.
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#59. So this has nothing to do with my telling you I was taking Emily out here today?" she asked skeptically. "Now, that would be too easy, wouldn't it?" "Everything is easy for you, Sawyer." "Not everything.
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#60. This past year, sometimes I would get up in the mornings and actually look forward to going to school because I knew I would see you. I would wonder what you were going to wear. I loved lunch because I could sit in the cafeteria and look out the window and see you up there in the bleachers.
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#61. Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.
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#62. Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.
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#63. I thought it was amazing that I could get a diploma just for reading fiction. It was like being able to major in eating chocolate. (on majoring in literature)
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#64. The Waverley sisters had married men as steadfast and normal as the women were mercurial and strange.
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#65. When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.
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#67. All this from one kiss. If we ever make love, I'm going to need a week to recover.
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#69. When you know something's wrong, but you don't know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.
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#70. Kate could feel a strange heat along the back of her neck, something she hadn't felt in a while. It was almost exotic, like tasting turmeric or saffron after a year of eating pudding. There was a bite to it.
She was annoyed.
She was finally awake and annoyed.
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#72. Ever read a story that you simply can't imagine how it will end? This place is like that. The best things in life are like that.
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#73. There was such a feeling of peace around them, it was soft and pink and smelled of butter.
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#74. His casual, almost flippant, mention of it took her by surprise and made her feel cool and tart, like tasting lime for the first time.
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#75. Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.
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#77. The trick to getting through life, she'd told him, is not to resent it when it isn't exactly how you think it should be.
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#78. Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.
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#79. Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.
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#80. Della Lee said, "I think heaven will be like a first kiss." "I hope so," Josey murmured. "Me too.
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#81. Everyone is here to say good-bye. It's what people do when they go their separate ways. They say good-bye. I've done it a lot. It goes like this.
Selma turned and walked away.
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#83. 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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#84. Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.
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#85. Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see.
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#86. Stop it, she told herself.
There was only so much she could control.
But that was just it. She was trying so hard because she felt so out of control.
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#87. He lifted up on one elbow and looked down at her. What she wouldn't give to see what he saw, to know what made him look at her that way.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.
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#92. It feels like he's taken your heart, doesn't it? ... Like he's reached in and pulled it out from you. And I bet he smiles like he doesn't know, like he doesn't know he's holding your heart in his hand and you're dying from him.
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#93. Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story.
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#94. Josey shook her head, thinking, if Della Lee were a candy, she would be a SweeTart. Not the hard kind that broke your teeth, the chewy kind, the kind you had to work on and mull over, your eyes watering and your lips turning up into a smile you didn't want to give.
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#96. If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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#97. She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.
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#99. They lit candles on the table, all while the apple tree shook and blossoms continued to fall. When the petals hit the flames of the candles, they hissed and popped into ash, leaving behind a scent that was so beautiful and sweet that it smelled like both yesterday and tomorrow.
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#100. I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.
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