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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
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Lena
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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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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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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.
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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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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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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
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Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.
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They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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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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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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