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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Make
Grumpy
Tired
Fun
Probably
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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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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think. I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.
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She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
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Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
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She existed in her friends there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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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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I love you, I'll never stop.
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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.
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One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
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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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What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.
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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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