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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Judging
Daughter
Please
Mother
Much
Things
Spoken
Judge
Older

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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
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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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There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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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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But like everything else, love changed.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up? Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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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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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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