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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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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
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Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
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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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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
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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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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
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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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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.
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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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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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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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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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