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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Attitude
Inspirational
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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
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Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
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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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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.
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