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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
Sometimes
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Invisible
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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
Ann Brashares
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
Ann Brashares
Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
Ann Brashares
He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
Ann Brashares
She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
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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.
Ann Brashares
Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
Ann Brashares
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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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
Ann Brashares
Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
Ann Brashares
Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.
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You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.
Ann Brashares
I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
Ann Brashares
For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
Ann Brashares
There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
Ann Brashares
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.
Ann Brashares
But like everything else, love changed.
Ann Brashares
Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
Ann Brashares
When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
Ann Brashares
She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
Ann Brashares