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Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
May
Love
Thicker
Friendship
Blood
Water

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For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
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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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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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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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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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