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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
Things
Spoken
Judge
Older
Judging
Daughter
Please
Mother
Much

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There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
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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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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think. I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
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She closed her eyes. I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him. Why? Because I wanted to be with 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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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
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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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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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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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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
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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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Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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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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She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
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