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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Right
Fronts
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Forget
Lost
Remember

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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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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 look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
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Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.
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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.
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She wanted him to notice her so much.
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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