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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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• He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

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  Swimming, Differences, Effort

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.167, Bantam

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• She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.

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  Daughter, Dream, Strong

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.21, Bantam

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• I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

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  Trying, Finding Happiness, Lost

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

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• He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

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  World, Tongue, Wanted

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.14, Bantam

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• There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

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  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.3, 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 people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.

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  Believe, People, Giving

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.143, Bantam

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• Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer's progress, helpless, almost as if they couldn't look away. "They remind you of something good--picnics or carrying sparklers around at night. Southern men will hold doors open for you, they'll hold you after you yell at them, and they'll hold on to their pride no matter what. Be careful what they tell you, though. They have a way of making you believe anything, because they say it that way.

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  Believe, Pride, Night

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• He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.

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  Believe, Weather, Kind

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.160, Bantam

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