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“The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?

“I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?

“Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“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.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time.
He’d forgotten how bright it was.
So bright he could hardly stand it. ”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“It's what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us.”
― Beth Hoffman (Author), Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“You can't see the whole sky from one window.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake

“I’m telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it’s worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.”
― David Baldacci, The Escape