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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Lena
Loved
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Love

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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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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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Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.
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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn 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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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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She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at 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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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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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.
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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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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
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