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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
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It was wrong. But it was worth it.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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You should find him because he loves you.
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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