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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
Trying
Things
Surround
Avoid
Pain
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One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
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Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
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I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
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You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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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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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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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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I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.
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