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She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
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
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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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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
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