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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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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
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She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
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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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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
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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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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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