Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

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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…
• When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.
• I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like…
• It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
• Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?
• For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
• Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.
• First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.
• If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.
• Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
• Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.
• Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.
• To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid…
• I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
• When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights.…
• 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.…
• Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved…
• It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as…
• 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 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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