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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

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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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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
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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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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
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Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .
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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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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.
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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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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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.
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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.
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Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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