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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
Needs
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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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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
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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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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
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There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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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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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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I killed her once and died for her many times
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