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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Fall
Love
People

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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
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I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
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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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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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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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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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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.
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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
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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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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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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.
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