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

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• Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

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• Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.

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• It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

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• When you’re happy for yourself, it fills you. When you’re happy for someone else, it pours over.

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

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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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• People adapt. People change. You can grow where you’re planted.

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

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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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• Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

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

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• Men. You can’t live with them, you can’t shoot them.

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

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

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

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• No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

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

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• If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.

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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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Sarah Addison Allen (34)

Birth:	30th March
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

Sarah Addison Allen is an American author. She grew up in Asheville, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where she graduated with a degree in literature.

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