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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Sorry
Asked
Maybe
Liked
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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
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The path of your life can change in an instant.
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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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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.
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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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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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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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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
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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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It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
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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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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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