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She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Going
Rest
Long
Knew
Good
Everyone
Uncertain
Things
Experience
Courageous
Life
Wells
Hide
World
Well
Direction
Enough
Couldn
Real
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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.
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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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I love you, I'll never stop.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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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.
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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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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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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.
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