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My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories
Sarah Addison Allen
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Sarah Addison Allen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 30
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Asheville
North Carolina
Katie Gallagher
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But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.
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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 make up a new one.
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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
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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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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.
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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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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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It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.
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For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
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Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.
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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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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
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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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Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
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Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
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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.
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Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
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Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
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Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?
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