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Luck never gives it lends.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Lends
Luck
Gives
Giving
Never

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For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.
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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
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How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up? Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
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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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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
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She wanted him to notice her so much.
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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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