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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Life
Happy
Perfect
Stringing
Truth
Sisterhood
Together
Loser
Littles
Pants
Little
Bits
Everything
Maybe
Things
Happiness

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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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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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