Quote

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.

Ann Brashares

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Wonder
Whether
Polly
Lost
Dieting
Ever
Parts
Wanted
Beginning
Self
Lose
Right
Loses
Good
Pretty

More quotes by Ann Brashares

Image
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.
Ann Brashares
Image
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
Ann Brashares
Image
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
Ann Brashares
Image
Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
Ann Brashares
Image
I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
Ann Brashares
Image
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.
Ann Brashares
Image
Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
Ann Brashares
Image
Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.
Ann Brashares
Image
They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
Ann Brashares
Image
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
Ann Brashares
Image
You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.
Ann Brashares
Image
She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
Ann Brashares
Image
The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.
Ann Brashares
Image
She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
Ann Brashares
Image
She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
Ann Brashares
Image
It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
Ann Brashares
Image
It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
Ann Brashares
Image
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
Ann Brashares
Image
I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
Ann Brashares
Image
It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
Ann Brashares