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Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Littles
Short
Agony
Little
Behinds
Passive
Really
Behind
Thin
Life
Emotion
Relief
Memories
Disappear
Doubt
Leaving
Felt
Memory
Aligns
Truth
Lived
Disappears

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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.
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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 existed in her friends there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
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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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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
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There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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But like everything else, love changed.
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