Quote

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

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
Single
Loved
Word
Mother
Every
Depended
Annoyed

More quotes by Ann Brashares

Image
Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
Ann Brashares
Image
Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
Ann Brashares
Image
Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.
Ann Brashares
Image
She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
Ann Brashares
Image
How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
Ann Brashares
Image
Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
Ann Brashares
Image
Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
Ann Brashares
Image
You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.
Ann Brashares
Image
You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
Ann Brashares
Image
I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
Ann Brashares
Image
He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.
Ann Brashares
Image
I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
Ann Brashares
Image
I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
Ann Brashares
Image
She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
Ann Brashares
Image
It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
Ann Brashares
Image
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
Ann Brashares
Image
Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.
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
Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
Ann Brashares
Image
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
Ann Brashares