Quote

She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.

Ann Brashares

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Knew
Parent
Friends
Love
Doubted
Whose
Parents
Wasn

More quotes by Ann Brashares

Image
Wear them, they will make you brave.
Ann Brashares
Image
Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
Ann Brashares
Image
My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
Ann Brashares
Image
Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
Ann Brashares
Image
But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
Ann Brashares
Image
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
Ann Brashares
Image
She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
Ann Brashares
Image
She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
Ann Brashares
Image
And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
Ann Brashares
Image
She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
Ann Brashares
Image
I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
Ann Brashares
Image
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
Ann Brashares
Image
But it was smell that carried memory.
Ann Brashares
Image
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
Ann Brashares
Image
I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
Ann Brashares
Image
When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes
Ann Brashares
Image
For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
Ann Brashares
Image
There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
Ann Brashares
Image
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.
Ann Brashares
Image
The path of your life can change in an instant.
Ann Brashares