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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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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Able
Wanted
Even
Tired

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Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.
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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
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Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.
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She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.
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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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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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