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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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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Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.
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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.
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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
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He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.
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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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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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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
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You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.
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As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had searched and wondered, looking for a sign. And all along they'd had their trees. You couldn't wear them. You couldn't pass them around. They offered no fashion advantage. But they had roots. They lived.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
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