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My point is sad times sometimes look like happy ones and vice versa. Christmas is like that. We look back fondly on tough times and romanticize the worst moments. Sometimes it rains in December and snows on Halloween, but Hallmark wouldn’t
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“Lonely fights are the worst, she said. She’d rather lose a lonely fight. She’d rather join a losing team than win a lonely fight.”
― Fight Night
― Fight Night
“Who my child becomes is not the sum of what happened to him.”
― All My Rage
― All My Rage
“To be alive means full body contact with the absurd. Still, we can be happy. Even poor old Sisyphus could figure that much out. And that’s saying something. You might say that God is an absurd concept but faith in God’s goodness. . .I find joy in that. I find it inspiring.”
― Fight Night
― Fight Night
“She was not of my body or my blood, this child. But she was of my soul.”
― All My Rage
― All My Rage
“[W]hat makes a tragedy bearable and unbearable is the same thing—which is that life goes on.”
― Fight Night
― Fight Night
The Sarah Addison Allen Fan Group
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Where readers can discuss all things Sarah Addison Allen and receive exclusive sneak peeks from Sarah's enchanting novels. ...more
Magic Realism
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Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more
Beta Reader Group
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A place to connect writers with beta readers. Sometimes writers get so involved in the plot they can't see the wood for the trees. Hang on a sec'--th ...more
Southern Lit Lovers
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— last activity Jun 04, 2016 05:45AM
**Southern Lit Lovers is no longer an active group and not accepting new members. Requests to join will be declined. (6/1/16)*** Please also note SLLs ...more
Food in Fiction
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Do you love fiction in which food and/or drink plays a major part? Books like Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman, Sideways, Chocolat, Secrets of the T ...more
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