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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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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
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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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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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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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For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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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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So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris
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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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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
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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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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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She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
Ann Brashares