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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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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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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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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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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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