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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
Believed
Seen
Belief
Things
Ralph

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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
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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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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.
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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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Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
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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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I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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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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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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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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