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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
Inferior
Inferiors
Boyfriend
Somebody
Everybody
Doe
Love

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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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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.
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It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.
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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
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Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.
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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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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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