Life is about experience. You can't hold on to everything.

—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells

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About Sarah Addison Allen

Sarah Addison Allen (also known by the pen name Katie Gallagher) is an American and New York Times bestselling author.

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It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Sugar Queen

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

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

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

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When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse.

—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells

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When you’re a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

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Buddhism is not a refuge from life. It is life stripped bare and known most intimately. Zen doesn't make you a "better person." It helps you become fully human. My mentor was no model for how to behave perfectly but for how to experience completely. He never told me how to live my life. He just helped me become alive.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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Life is full of so much that you refuse to let yourself experience. The blanketing comfort of love, the fulfillment of contagious laughter, the peace of finding true joy, the butterflies of uncontainable excitement… these are all things that make up life. They should never be taken for granted.

—L.B. Simmons in The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

—Joseph Addison

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You may have expected that enlightenment would come like zap! Instantaneous and permanent. This is unlikely. After the first "aha" experience, it can be thought of as the thinning of a layer of clouds.

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

—Vernon Sanders Law

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