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One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Made
Good
Promises
Memory
Promise
Memories
Keep
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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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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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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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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276
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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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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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