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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
Make
Effie
Grumpy
Questions
Fun
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He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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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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For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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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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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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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
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Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.
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She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.
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There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.
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