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Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
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City of Alexandria
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It was wrong. But it was worth it.
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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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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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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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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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Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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