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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Roots
Joy
Always
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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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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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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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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
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Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.
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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
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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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The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
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Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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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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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.
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