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Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

Sarah Addison Allen

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Sarah Addison Allen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 30
Author
Asheville
North Carolina
Katie Gallagher
Everything
Life
Hold
Experience

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Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.
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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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First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.
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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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He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.
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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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Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.
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She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
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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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She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.
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I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
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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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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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The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.
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Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
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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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