"There was a certain power beautiful mothers held……" — Sarah Addison Allen
"There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters."
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133 Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen
Sarah Addison Allen has 133 quotes on this site.
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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…
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When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the…
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I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel…
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It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
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Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside…
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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 its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.
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First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.
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If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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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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Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.
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Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.
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