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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Fairs
Fair
Death
Life
Fairer
William

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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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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
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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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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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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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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.
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But like everything else, love changed.
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There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
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Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
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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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