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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Two
Kind
World
People
Divide
Divides
Kinds
Humor
Funny

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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
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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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I love you, I'll never stop.
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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
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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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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.
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Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
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But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
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I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.
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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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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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