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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
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Nothing
Reach
Even
Okay
Trying
Dead
Fall
May
Wells
Might
Anyway
Well
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
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Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
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I killed her once and died for her many times
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I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.
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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
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Luck never gives it lends.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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