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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Smile
Spill
Thousand
Spills
Anything
Knee
Wanted
Rice
Things
Bricks
Time
Smiled
Acid
Lava
Knees
Spilled

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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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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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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.
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He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.
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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.
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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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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.
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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