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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
Mess
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Sometimes
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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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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
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What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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I like that you let yourself be surprised
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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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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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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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