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

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story.

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

Her grandmother used to say something about how the air around you will turn white when things are about to change.

Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

A house isn't a real house without a woman in it.

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

When someone needs help, you help. Right?

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

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.

The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.

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

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

All we have is our deep and abiding love for each other.
We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other,
who will?

There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.

Daughters of the South were to their mothers what tributaries were to the main rivers they flowed into: their source of immovable strength.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

I maced people for you," WIlla said; "you've got me for life

She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another.

Summer was a lady who didn't give up her spotlight easily.

She seethed like water the second before it rolls to a boil.

You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?

Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump.

Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.

The neighborhood was quiet in that way only the cold could make it, as if freezing sounds before they hit the ground.

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

His casual, almost flippant, mention of it took her by surprise and made her feel cool and tart, like tasting lime for the first time.

History is a loop. We're exactly where they stood twenty years ago. What's theirs is ours, what's ours will become theirs.

One of those people with invisible thorns, preventing others from getting too close.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.

He stood there, glowing like the sun, and stared at her like she was the unbelievable one.

He loved that she made him something he never thought he'd been capable of being. Someone who stayed.

We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.

The trailer looks like home!

We are conduits for happiness.

My favorite quote for First Frost is, They give their hearts away too easily and get distracted by silver-eyed strangers.

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

He was one of those men for whom all their fatigue went to their eyes in a sleepy, sexy kind of way.

Ice queens didn't break, after all. They melted. And Marco didn't have enough warmth for that.

Stood on the sidewalk and looked down the street

The maple leaves grow restless.

Lisette was born without the ability to speak, but she'd been brazen with written words as a child, substituting a sharp tongue for a poison pen.

There was such a feeling of peace around them, it was soft and pink and smelled of butter.

Why don't you take off your shirt?" he finally asked. "I bet you say that to all the girls.

Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.

Some people come into your life and change it forever.

Waverleys know where to find the truth, they just can't stomach it.

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

Always make your expectations known, she used to say. That way you never get hurt.

She did know that it's remarkably easy to fall in love with someone who is already in love with you. It's a little like falling in love with yourself.

Ever read a story that you simply can't imagine how it will end? This place is like that. The best things in life are like that.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

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.

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.

Kate's stomach trembled with that particular anxiety that always heralded something good.

Life is too short to spend time with people' who suck the happiness "out of u"..

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

A haunting, magical, modern-day fairytale. A feast for the senses.

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have.

But don't define yourself by what you *don't* want to do. Define yourself by what you do want to do.

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

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

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

Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right.

It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.

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

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

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.

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

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

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

Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

Candy is my religion.

Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.

In North Carolina, barbecue means pork, child. Hot dogs and hamburgers on a grill - that's called 'cooking out' around here,

I get the feeling that you like pointing me in the wrong direction.

Love always hurts. That's one thing I know you know. But it's worth it. That's what you don't know. Yet.

But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn't he have just stayed buried? No good had come of this.

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.

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

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 it out.

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

There was something magnetic about him"
~Sarah Addison Allen

The moon charm has an inscription: Yours from dark to light.

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

Like all fairy tales, the beginning is always beautiful, a ruse to draw you into something you are anticipating.

Did I ever tell you about the day I finally let go of him? That day that led me to you?

Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.

And you couldn't make a snowman in your neighborhood because?
Because you weren't there.

A breeze flew through, picking up some leaves and swirling them around, the sound like fluttering pages in a quiet library.

Even at seventy-four, with a limp from a hip replacement, Margaret could still enter a room and fill it like perfume.

Old hands can hold memories of good things.

But she was smart. She was savvy. And most of all, she was Southern.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.