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21 " The townhouse was in a community called Waterview, a pretty green place with a common that had a gazebo and a fountain. The homes were red-brick colonial and beautiful. The townhouse Paxton had loved from the moment Kirsty showed it to her last year was in a cup-de-sac. Wisteria vines grew around the door, and Paxton remembered thinking how wonderful it would be to walk in and out in the springtime, when the wisteria would be in full bloom. It would be like walking through a wedding arch every day. "
― Sarah Addison Allen , The Peach Keeper
22 " PAXTON OSGOOD'S FUTURE HUSBANDWill be kind Will be funny Will be acceptingWill be be able to cookWill be a good kisserWill always surprise meWill argue with me and sometimes let me win, but not alwaysWill be mysteriousWill always love me, no matter what I look like Mama will not like him, which means I will love him even more "
23 " He was one of those men for whom all their fatigue went to their eyes in a sleepy, sexy kind of way. "
24 " It was Paxton Osgood, wearing a cute pink dress and gorgeous shoes. She was tall like her brother, but had wide curves, as if one of her angular French ancestors had scandalized everyone by marrying a pretty stout milkmaid, and several generations later, Paxton was the result. "
25 " Paxton walked over to the box and opened it, still feeling a little of that thrill she used to have at the thought of party dresses, the fantasy of it all. She smiled when she saw the shimmering pink material, the sparkling jewels at the neckline. "
26 " Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . . "
27 " People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted. "
28 " People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated. "
29 " 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, a frivolity, like a bubble bath. "
30 " That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after. "
31 " She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people. "
32 " Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all. "
33 " That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it. "
34 " How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us? "
35 " Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact. "
36 " Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery. "
37 " How could someone with a life this full feel this empty? "
38 " Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning. "
39 " But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life. "
40 " She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it. "