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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Didn
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.
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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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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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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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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.
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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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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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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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How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.
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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
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Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
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She wanted him to notice her so much.
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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