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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
Needs
Make
Mess
Need
Sometimes

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When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
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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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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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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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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
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She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
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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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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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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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At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276
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