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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Feelings
Weird
Doesn
Wear
Seems
Meet
Ever
Return
Love
Seem
Mutation
Feeling
Genetic
Guy
Dress
Fall
Dresses

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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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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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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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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.
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I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up? Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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