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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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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Show
Girl
Shows
Planted
Firmly
Pants
Ground
Feet

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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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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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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.
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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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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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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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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.
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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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