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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
Need
Sometimes
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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Luck never gives it lends.
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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
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I killed her once and died for her many times
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
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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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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
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Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
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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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It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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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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