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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.

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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 used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.
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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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She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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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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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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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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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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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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