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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
Rare
Nice
Secret
Simple
Another
Love
Carmen

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She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
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Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.
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Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
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I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.
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Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
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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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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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