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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 wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
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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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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
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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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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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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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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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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.
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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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The path of your life can change in an instant.
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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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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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