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What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Giveth
Daniel
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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.
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She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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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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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
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But like everything else, love changed.
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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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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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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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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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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes
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