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Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Effie
Grumpy
Questions
Fun
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.
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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?
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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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The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
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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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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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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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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
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