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

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Root
Roots
Joy
Always

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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
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There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
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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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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
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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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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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