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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
Feels
Powerfully
Really
Friendship
Joy
Loved
Pain
Else
Someone
Feel

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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.
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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.
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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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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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You should find him because he loves you.
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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
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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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She closed her eyes. I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him. Why? Because I wanted to be with you.
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Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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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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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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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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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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