If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“I maced people for you," WIlla said; "you've got me for life” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“The world was not like him and was not going to change for him. The trick to getting through life, she'd told… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Her friendship . . . still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it,… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“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… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She wasn't a nature girl, though for some reason he wanted her to be. He wanted her to be a lot of… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“life is too short to spend time with people' who suck the happiness "out of u"..” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back,… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“It was natural, she supposed, to be tense around him. Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“He was not going to move on until she let go of him, of her guilt. And that was one thing she… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Her grandmother had a life, a life Claire hadn't known about or even imagined. She had tried so hard to know everything… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“...Agatha had declared that her friendship to Georgie still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“It feels like he's taken your heart, doesn't it?…Like he's reached in and pulled it out from you. And I bet he smiles like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“There was such a feeling of peace around them, it was soft and pink and smelled of butter.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“The two giant oaks in the front yard looked like flustered ladies caught mid-curtsy, their starched green leaf-dresses swaying in the wind.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“After awhile, all the men wanted his opinion, and all the girls were in love with him. He made certain of it. Because he… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t sure exactly when it happened when she had realized that she could only make one of them happy. She only knew that… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She opened her eyes slowly and saw that a pale lavender moth had come to a rest on the back of her hand. She… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
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