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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
Funny
Two
Kind
World
Divide
People
Divides
Kinds
Humor

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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. 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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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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You should find him because he loves you.
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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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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
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