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

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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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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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You should find him because he loves you.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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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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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
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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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Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.
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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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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 was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.
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Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.
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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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