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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
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Asheville
North Carolina
Katie Gallagher
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Experience
Everything
Life

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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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First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.
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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
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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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When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.
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She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
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You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
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There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.
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No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.
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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
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If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there's more to what's written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don't see.
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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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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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Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.
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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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I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
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