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

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Love
Lena
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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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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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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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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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.
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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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It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.
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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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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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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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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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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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It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.
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