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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
Fun
Probably
Talk
Make
Grumpy
Tired

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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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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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At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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