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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Like
Remember
Foot
Slicing
Persons
Admire
Splinter
Person
Library
Veritable
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Return
Cucumbers
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
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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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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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Luck never gives it lends.
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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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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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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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