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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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He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.
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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
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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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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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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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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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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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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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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.
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At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
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There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
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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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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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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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