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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Leading
Usually
Worry
Getting
Happiness
Commensurate

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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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