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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
Ann Brashares
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 allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
Ann Brashares
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
Ann Brashares
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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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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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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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.
Ann Brashares
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.
Ann Brashares
He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.
Ann Brashares
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.
Ann Brashares
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.
Ann Brashares
She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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