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Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Boyfriend
Somebody
Everybody
Doe
Love
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Inferiors

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She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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