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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

Ann Brashares

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

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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
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Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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