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

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

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Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
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I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
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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
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I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
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Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.
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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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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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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
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Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.
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Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.
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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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Her friendship . . . 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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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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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.
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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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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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For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
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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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Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
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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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