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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
Happened
Many
Really
Things
Astonished
Time
Hadn
Life
Couldn
Like
Knew
Imagine

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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .
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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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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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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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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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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
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