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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Mess
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Sometimes
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits 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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I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.
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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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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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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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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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He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.
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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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Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .
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