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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
Work
Carmen
Grandmother
Wish
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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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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Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.
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Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
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It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.
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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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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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She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.
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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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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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