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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Carmen
Grandmother
Wish
Need
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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
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You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.
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Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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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 existed in her friends there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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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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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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