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

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
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Sometimes
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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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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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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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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The path of your life can change in an instant.
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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
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Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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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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I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.
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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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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
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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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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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