Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
Ann Brashares
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Carmen
Loving
Loved
Hard
More quotes by Ann Brashares
Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
Ann Brashares
They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
Ann Brashares
I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
Ann Brashares
Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
Ann Brashares
She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
Ann Brashares
I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
Ann Brashares
Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
Ann Brashares
A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
Ann Brashares
I like that you let yourself be surprised
Ann Brashares
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
Ann Brashares
Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
Ann Brashares
Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
Ann Brashares
You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
Ann Brashares
Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?
Ann Brashares
There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
Ann Brashares
How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
Ann Brashares
Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. I'm scared... , she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.
Ann Brashares
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.
Ann Brashares
I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.
Ann Brashares
She closed her eyes. I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him. Why? Because I wanted to be with you.
Ann Brashares