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

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Liked
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Sorry
Asked
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
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At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.
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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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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
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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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Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
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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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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.
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There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.
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