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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Age
People
Snotty
Sympathetic
Shy
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Older

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She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.
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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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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
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You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276
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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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Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.
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You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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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.
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She existed in her friends there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
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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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