On Folly Beach (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Emmy: Main character, just lost her husband Ben, her mom convinces her to move to South Carolina to Folly Beach and buy a book store there
• Lulu: Heath's aunt and one of the main characters when looking back to the past.
• Maggie: Lulu's older sister and Catherine's cousin. Maggie makes her mom a promise to always look after Catherine (Cat).
• Heathcliff (Heath): When Emma arrives on Folly Beach, she rents Heath's home which he designed and had built for his fiance. Heath quickly sinks in as a likable character - smart and educated from both books and life. He has a few secrets of his own that are unveiled as the book develops that help the reader understand he has come to be who he is - loyal to family and living each day. Also like that his dog is named Frank after his architectural hero, FLWright.
• Catherine (Cat): Maggie's and Lulu's cousin, also a main character in the book. Catherine is beautiful, but lost and insecure from having lost her mother at an early age.
• Peter: A handsome love interest with a shady past and plenty of interesting secrets.

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• “"How do you know whn it's been long enough?"Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you realize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does."”

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• live for the day in the best way possible, and everything else will work itself out.

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• “Sometimes, just when we think we can see our lives on course and we can settle back and get comfortable, a new path opens. Some people just keep going, too scared to veer off the familiar path. But others, well, they step off into the unknown, and find that maybe that was where they were supposed to be all along.”

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• “When you realize that love doesn’t have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they’re inseparable.”

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• I think worrying is a lot like chewing gum. Eventually it runs out of taste, and you’ve got to spit it out.”

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• “Life should be a question, Emmy, and you’re way too young to think you’ve already found all the answers.”

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• “We never get to choose whether we love someone or not, Lulu. It’s not like a gift you can give and take back. It just is.”

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• what she found on the beach was just reminders that you weren’t alone in the world. That she’d always find what she needed if she looked hard enough.

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• A great man once wrote, “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.” If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld . . . I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.

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• “These five holes show Christ’s wounds on the cross, and this in the middle is a blooming Easter lily surrounding the star of Bethlehem.” Maggie lifted her eyes and saw that Peter was staring at her instead of the shell. Quickly she averted her eyes and turned the sand dollar over. “On the other side is the Christmas poinsettia to remind us of Christ’s birth. They say if you break the center five white doves will be released to spread goodwill and peace.”

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• Soul meets soul on lover’s lips. Percy Shelley’s

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Folly Beach, SC

Organizations edit see section history

• Save the Light, Inc. (savethelight.org): Group dedicated to save the Morris Island lighthouse featured in ON FOLLY BEACH.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Karen White (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Short listed for Best Book for the SIBA (Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance) award (2011: Fiction)

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• Dewey: 813.6

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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