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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Anxious
Several
Birth
Married
Pleasure
Giving
Children
Mixed
Distress

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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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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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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
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What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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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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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.
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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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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
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There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
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