Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
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
Capable
Took
Maybe
Heart
Admitting
Make
Wondered
Member
Tragedy
Members
More quotes by Ann Brashares
A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
Ann Brashares
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.
Ann Brashares
When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
Ann Brashares
Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
Ann Brashares
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
Ann Brashares
Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
Ann Brashares
Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
Ann Brashares
Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
Ann Brashares
Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
Ann Brashares
It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.
Ann Brashares
There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
Ann Brashares
some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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
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
I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
Ann Brashares
She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.
Ann Brashares
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.
Ann Brashares
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
Ann Brashares
But it was smell that carried memory.
Ann Brashares
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.
Ann Brashares
