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Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Running
Must
Never
Love

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She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
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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.
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There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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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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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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Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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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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He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.
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