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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Ralph
Believed
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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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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Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.
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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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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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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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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
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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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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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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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