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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.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Older
Age
People
Snotty
Sympathetic
Shy
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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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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.
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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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She wanted him to notice her so much.
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It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.
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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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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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