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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
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I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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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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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
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Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.
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There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
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I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
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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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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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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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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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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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