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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
Questions
Fun
Asks
Right
Make
Effie
Grumpy

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Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
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Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.
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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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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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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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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 felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.
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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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You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.
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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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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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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 love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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