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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
Seen
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But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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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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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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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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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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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.
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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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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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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
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What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.
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She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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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 wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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