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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
Girl
Shows
Planted
Firmly
Pants
Ground
Feet
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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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Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
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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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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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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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I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.
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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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She closed her eyes. I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him. Why? Because I wanted to be with you.
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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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I like that you let yourself be surprised
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They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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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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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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