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

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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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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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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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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.
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Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
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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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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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