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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
Married
Pleasure
Giving
Children
Mixed
Distress
Anxious
Several
Birth

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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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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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I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.
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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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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
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