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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Seems
Describe
Enough
Starts
Feel
Seem
Feels
Word
Friends
Forget
Bigs
Stretch
Doesn
Stops

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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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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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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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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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I love you, I'll never stop.
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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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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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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.
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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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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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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
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There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.
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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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