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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.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Feel
Feels
Powerfully
Really
Friendship
Joy
Loved
Pain
Else
Someone

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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.
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I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.
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I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.
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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. 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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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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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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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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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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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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But like everything else, love changed.
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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
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We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.
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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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Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.
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