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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Happenings
Keeps
Happening
Things
Time

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As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had searched and wondered, looking for a sign. And all along they'd had their trees. You couldn't wear them. You couldn't pass them around. They offered no fashion advantage. But they had roots. They lived.
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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.
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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
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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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So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris
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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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Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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It was wrong. But it was worth it.
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I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.
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Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.
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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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