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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
Happy
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Effie
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Lena
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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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So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris
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Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.
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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
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As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had searched and wondered, looking for a sign. And all along they'd had their trees. You couldn't wear them. You couldn't pass them around. They offered no fashion advantage. But they had roots. They lived.
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
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She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
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Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
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Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris
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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
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