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She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Time
Hadn
Life
Couldn
Like
Knew
Imagine
Happened
Many
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Astonished

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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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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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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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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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