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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'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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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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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.
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Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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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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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
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So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris
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