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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Brave
Wear
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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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There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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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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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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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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We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.
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I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .
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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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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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