Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.
Sarah Addison AllenFate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.
Sarah Addison AllenIt looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
Sarah Addison AllenDon't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?
Sarah Addison AllenWhen people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.
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