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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
Life
Fairer
William
Fairs
Fair
Death

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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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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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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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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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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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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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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
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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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Luck never gives it lends.
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.
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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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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
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