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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Truth
Feel
Feels
Maybe
Actually
Happens

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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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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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The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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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.
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