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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Dies
Going

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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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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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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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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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But it was smell that carried memory.
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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
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The path of your life can change in an instant.
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She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.
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Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
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The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.
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