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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
Water
May
Love
Thicker
Friendship
Blood

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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.
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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
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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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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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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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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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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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