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It was wrong. But it was worth it.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
Worth
Wrong
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You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.
Ann Brashares
Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.
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But like everything else, love changed.
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There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
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Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.
Ann Brashares
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
Ann Brashares
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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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
Ann Brashares
What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
Ann Brashares
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.
Ann Brashares
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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Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
Ann Brashares
How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
Ann Brashares
You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
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