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After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

Sarah Addison Allen

Book, Mind, Stories

Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.120, St. Martin's Press

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But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.

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Believe, Smell, Taste

Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.149, Bantam

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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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Home, Air, Smell

Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

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Air, Tails, Kites

Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

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The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

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Sweet, Cake, Spoons

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When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.

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Beautiful, Winter, Wrinkles

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.31, Bantam

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If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

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Running, Men, Skins

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Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

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Adventure, Hands, Stability

Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.149, Bantam

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People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

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Regret, Life Is Too Short, Long

Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.175, Bantam

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Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.

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Children, Grandmother, Secret

Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.26, Bantam

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He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

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Thinking, People, Faces

Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.154, Bantam

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It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

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Two, People, World

Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.209, Bantam

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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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Eye, Mean, Cutting

Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.247, Bantam

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Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

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Father, Adults, Trouble

Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.11, Bantam

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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 more attention to the story.

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Book, Years, Attention

Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.197, Bantam

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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. It was cold enough for scarves and shirts worn in layers, like camouflage. It was cold enough for her lucky red cardigan, which she swore had a power of its own. She loved this time of year. Summer was tedious with the light dresses she pretended to be comfortable in while secretly sure she looked like a loaf of white bread wearing a belt. The cold was such a relief.

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Summer, White, Light

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.1, Bantam

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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. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.

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Chocolate Ice Cream, Expectations, Magic

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.12, Bantam

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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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Crazy, Doors, Watches

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “Garden Spells”, p.86, Hachette UK

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Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

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Past, Enough, Hard

Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.15, Bantam

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...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

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Night, Smell, Syrup

Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.15, Bantam

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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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Hurt, Expectations, Way

Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.93, Bantam

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Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

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People, Together, Blank

Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.113, Bantam

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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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Self, Self Respect, Easy

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.59, Bantam

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She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

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Way, Bears, Easier

Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.145, Bantam

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I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has always been tough for me." I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me.

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Believe, Home, Tough

Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.204, Bantam

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