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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
Knew
Enemy
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Never
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Phone
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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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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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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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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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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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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
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