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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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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Wanted
Always
Wasn
Maybe
Sure
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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. 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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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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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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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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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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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 are some people who fall in love over and over.
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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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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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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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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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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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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