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You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Surround
Avoid
Pain
Find
Trying
Things

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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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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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Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
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She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.
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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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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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