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Wear them, they will make you brave.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Wear
Make
Brave

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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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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
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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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She closed her eyes. I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him. Why? Because I wanted to be with 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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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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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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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.
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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.
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Luck never gives it lends.
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The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
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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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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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