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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Careful
Ordinary
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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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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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.
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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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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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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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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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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
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But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
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Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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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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