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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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• It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.

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  Sunshine, Feel Good, Breakfast

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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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• The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

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  Want, Able, Remember

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2014

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• I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

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  Dream, Thinking, Giving

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• How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?

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  Charity, Helping, Know How

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• Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

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  Mother, Bridges, Paper

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.10, Bantam

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• People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

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  Falling In Love, Fall, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.190, Bantam

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• When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

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  Believe, Believe In Me, Knows

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.53, Bantam

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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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  Book, Reading, Chocolate

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.238, Bantam

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• My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

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  Writing, Ideas, Stories

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.236, Bantam

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• Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.

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  People, Doubt, Ability

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.198, Bantam

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• To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.

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  Football, Regret, Thinking

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• How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

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  Empty, Feels

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.78, Bantam

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• There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

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  Art, Males

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.49, Bantam

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• When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.

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  Air, Knows

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.79, Bantam

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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 it forever?

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  Memories, Blow, Childhood

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.156, St. Martin's Press

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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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  Soul, Stubborn, Changing Your Life

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.

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  Hurt, Sorry, Men

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.249, Bantam

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• You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

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  Dying, Trying, Popcorn

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.76, Bantam

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• First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

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  Letting Go, Frost, Firsts

  Sarah Addison Allen (2015). “First Frost”, p.10, St. Martin's Press

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• Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

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  Life Is

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• Willa?" "Yes" "It's morning and I still love you.

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  Morning, Love You, Stills

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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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  Mother, Children, Crazy

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.38, St. Martin's Press

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• Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

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  Together, Looks, Reassurance

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.212, Bantam

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