"Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have."

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Source : Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

Sarah Addison Allen

#Thinking Quotes #Magic Quotes #Want Quotes

“Went in at the one ear and out at the other.”
“Sometimes, you need to stop taking your medicine to let your body heal itself. Sometimes, you need to pause so you can move forward. Sometimes, you need to turn away from something so you can see why you fell in love in the first place.”
“Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.”
“We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.”
“It's a real valley when I talk about veal. And calf roping. People were sensitive about calf roping. Which I think is quite funny.”
“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.”
“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”
“You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.”

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