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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Remember
Forgot
Remembering
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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.
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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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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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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.
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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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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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