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You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Carmen
Rare
Nice
Secret
Simple
Another
Love

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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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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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Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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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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She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
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Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.
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How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
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Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.
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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
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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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She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.
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