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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
Simple
Another
Love
Carmen
Rare
Nice
Secret

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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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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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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
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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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Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.
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I killed her once and died for her many times
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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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You should find him because he loves you.
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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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