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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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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
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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 couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.
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She existed in her friends there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think. I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
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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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