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Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

Sarah Addison Allen

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Sarah Addison Allen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 30
Author
Asheville
North Carolina
Katie Gallagher
Nothing
Trying
Really
Like
Broke
Looking
Keep
Find

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Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.
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She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.
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It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.
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It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.
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To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.
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When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.
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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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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
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We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet.
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She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
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That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.
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How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?
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When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.
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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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How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.
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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
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Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.
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To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.
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I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
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