Quote

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

Ann Brashares

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Faith
Strong
Enough
Trying
Fail
Failing

More quotes by Ann Brashares

Image
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
Ann Brashares
Image
I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
Ann Brashares
Image
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
Ann Brashares
Image
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
Image
You just have to let people love you in the way they can
Ann Brashares
Image
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
Ann Brashares
Image
She existed in her friends there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
Ann Brashares
Image
There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
Ann Brashares
Image
I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
Ann Brashares
Image
She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
Ann Brashares
Image
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.
Ann Brashares
Image
She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
Ann Brashares
Image
You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
Ann Brashares
Image
I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
Ann Brashares
Image
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
Ann Brashares
Image
Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
Ann Brashares
Image
The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.
Ann Brashares
Image
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
Image
Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
Ann Brashares
Image
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.
Ann Brashares