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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Ann Brashares

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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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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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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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How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
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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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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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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
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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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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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It was wrong. But it was worth it.
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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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Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?
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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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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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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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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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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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