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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Love
Jack
Dirt
Floor
Cold
Forget

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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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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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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
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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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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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Luck never gives it lends.
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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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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She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.
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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think. I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.
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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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