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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Certain
Way
Life
Seen
Everybody

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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.
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She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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I killed her once and died for her many times
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Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
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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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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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