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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
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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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Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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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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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
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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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I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
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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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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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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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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
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Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. I'm scared... , she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.
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