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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
Blood
Water
May
Love
Thicker
Friendship

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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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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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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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But like everything else, love changed.
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
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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 must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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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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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
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What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
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You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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